Alan,
I've heard that Mandrake is RedHat enhanced. I don't know this for a fact,
but I've seem a lot of similarities between the two. You could say they're
1st cousins.
--
Mark
I love my Linux Box...
REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym.
Registered Linux user # 1299563
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Alan N. wrote:
> Civileme wrote:
> >
> > It is a clear and distinct message to me when other distro users
> > show up on this mailing list for help... A very hopeful message
> > for the future of amicability.
> >
> > By george, I'll help them with no distinction. Of course my
> > advice may not be as well researched, because I haven't seen the
> > other distros in a while and I don't know immediately where to
> > look for the tech support doc, but then they should know free
> > advice is well worth what they pay for it.
> >
> > So why are those folks here?
> >
> > 1) Their distro has a "cathedral-style mailing list", with
> > _bona-fide_ "experts" instead of users struggling to help each
> > other out. We all have seen what happens to people who become
> > too impressed with themselves and their own knowledge.
> >
> > 2) The mailing lists for their distro are flame magnets.
> >
> > 3) Their own distro has NO mailing list
> >
> > As long as they don't advocate their distros here, I don't think
> > I have a problem. If other distro users are showing up here and
> > they are well-received, they'll be with us soon enough. Now is
> > not the time to deviate from a winning strategy, or from being
> > our friendly selves. I really don't think helping out people in
> > need is raising the entropy of the universe, nor do I believe it
> > constitutes tortious conduct.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Civileme
>
> I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since
> there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount.
> 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many
> problem's being reported. I'm not good enough in Linux to fix some of
> these on my own. Also, as of tonite I own a CD burner. I didn't
> before, and I burnt a RH CD at work beacuse I needed to make a few work
> projects that I wanted to run Linux on. Now that I have a burner, I
> will probably upgrade ( new install ) of Linux when KDE 2.0 comes out
> and appears on Mdk.. I will probably go back to MDK since I think they
> are really making it easier for some of us less knowledgable..
>
> Alan
>
>
