-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jaroslaw Zachwieja wrote: > On wto 10. czerwca 2003 09:30, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > >>No ! give me a good reason to buy a ppc distro ! mandrake sell 3 CD, >>exactly what I can download. Why PPC is not interesting ? Why nobody buy >>PPC ? > > > Actually, I think you're having this wrong. People are reluctant to buy > boxed set of PPC not because it's available (if that would be truth, > nobody would buy boxed sets from Mandrake). It's becouse the release cycle > is too long and it's future vague.
And conversely, if people bought boxed sets of 9.1, then 1)It's future would not be vague 2)The release cycle could be made to coincide better with i586. Classic chicken and egg scenario. But, the problem is there is another chicken farm ... IMHO, the problem is that OS X is a good enough unix for most (and has some advantages in terms of commercial software support), and PPC arch has a much smaller market share, so the small market share Mandrake has results in a tiny market for Mandrake PPC, whereas the large x86 market with not many more competitors is results in vastly superior market (in absolute numbers) for Mandrake i586. BTW, this is quite similar to many other arches, where the hardware vendor supplies the OS also (ie pre-installed). Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+5euHrJK6UGDSBKcRAhilAJ0fidj4CMDku2SLTyQPhttZiyL6IwCfXQK5 MyqVWhFEVBFlLI+oBWAia5g= =CqbN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
