On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 07:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir sent this :- > Look, I'm in a real tough position here. First, I am and always have > been a supporter of Mandrake.
For what it's worth, I am not, I have moved from Red Hat 7.3 with some modification, which I thought was the best of that distro to Mandrake 9.0, because of mainly what you say. Red Hat moved into being a troublesome system going the way of, windows like, less choice and gnome preference. I am still using Mandrake 9.0, but have done a lot of work to it from the kernel rebuild up. Mandrake 9.1 is on another machine, and the kernel has been rebuilt, and many things are being changed before it moves here. I feel fortunate in being able to do this to a distribution. Needless to say, I have not had any of the problems that are being discussed on this list and Mandrake 9.1 will hopefully come to this main machine very nicely as did Mandrake 9.0 to replace Red Hat 7.3 I always thought that this was what Linux was about. Working through the problems and I like Mandrake because it suits me. It seems easier to configure than Red Hat with a preference to KDE which I think is great. But having said that, I see that Linux will only travel well into the realm of the immediate and ordinary user, if it works well out of the box. If it doesn't people will, as you suggest, vote with their machines and install something other than Mandrake. If there is the ability to alter just about everything, I will probably stay with Mandrake and alter that which doesn't seem to work for me. When something is to be done and it doesn't do it, then I change it before going on with doing what it was required for, then move on. But that is not for the average user. I suppose to know the target clientele of the Mandrake organization would demonstrate where Mandrake is heading. In summary I have heard people say that Debian stable is very uninteresting and they prefer the more unstable versions. But that might come from people who like to make changes and invent or discover fixes? Charlie -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3
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