My main complaint (really about the only one) about Mandrake is that they apparently refuse to issue an Athlon-XP optimized version for retail sales, or download. However, at least you can rebuild the srpms yourself. But really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for different architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an "unsupported" disclaimer, if need be? IMO, they will loose a lot of users if they don't. Otherwise, Mandrake is a great distro, but the bottom line is a lot of users won't even consider distros that only put out i586 optimized versions (or less) anymore. After all, fewer and fewer users are even running i586 hardware these days. Mandrake needs to get with the times.
Robert Crawford On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:15 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > All; > I've been watching all the threads, and excitement over the upcoming > 9.1. As well as the critisizm over the rushed release dates. > > Just to add my .02 to it: > >
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