I have moved to a new thread, in the hope that someone at MandrakeSoft, or at least, someone in touch with MandrakeSoft, might see it.
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2003 1:05 am, Bill wrote: > Why is it when I go to my local Fry's I see rows of Red Hat boxes > some BSD boxes and Slackware CD's but never see Mandrake boxes. I > would gladly purchase Mandrake instead of downloading it if it was > in the stores. Seems to me that Mandrake needs to get there product > out on the shelves. I can purchase Red Hat all over the place here > in Silicon Valley but Mandrake is hard to find. Why is that? Before > Mandrake starts in with the adware they need to make sure there > product is out on the shelves next to Red Hat. > I really would like to see some authorative statement as to why Mandrake has this visibility problem. Linux has little shelf-space in the UK, but I have *never* seen a Mandrake box. Similarly, Linux Format is just about all we have in the magazine line, and while they give the Mandrake distros on their disks they obviously know little about it, as many statements they make in their Q & A pages are inaccurate. I don't suppose anyone from MandrakeSoft is reading the Mandrake and Advertising. thread any more, but if we knew why there was a visibility problem we might have a better idea of how to combat it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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