-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:56 pm, Guy Zelck wrote: > > > >Sounds to me like you are a candidate for Debian stable, slow and steady, > > no real upgrades for years. Of course they are on KDE 2.2.2 still, so > > that won't do. > > You haven't even looked on the KDE download page then? Debian have 3.1 > alright. Where's Mandrake on that page? > deb's available there are not official, they were packaged by a volunteer and there are a lot more people running Debian stable than people running Mandrake 8.x
> > Why just for club members? That's another development and attitude I > don't like. I couldn't care less about a VIP membership. Stuff that! > If I'll do it it will be for all. If I support Mandrake I do it out of > gratitude, not because I want to be better treated than someone who > doesn't. That's so against the free and open spirit of the open source > community that made Linux possible in the 1st place. > Because Club members pay for the development and as a for-profit comapny, MandrakeSoft cannot afford to provide services for free. If you don't like that Mandrake is a for-profit company and wants to sell it's services, again, use a distro that is community based like Debian. > > new distro, and if you want new stuff for the old distro, join the Club, > > but if it is older than 12 months, we don't know what it is." > > Don't expect that a membership will offer you all. > It may make sure there is a Mandrake Distribution in the future though. > >>for support. It's not good for Mandrake either having to adapt their > >>thinking or solutions to so many versions. It's making everybody's live > >>hard. > > > >Which is exactly why they are going to support only two prior releases as > > per their new product life initiative. > > Slow down is what they ought to do. > I agree they should slow down, but I don't think they should go as slow as you are proposing. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XoaOGu5uuMFlL5MRAvLcAJ9g5U7zDuhomEmxlPdodTtQRNc1HgCbBZc2 U6Gh5G1eXz+nIlwI+4VKtLg= =ZeKg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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