On February  3, 2002 11:23 pm, dep wrote:

>
> agreement again. a surprisingly delightful post came from rms on the
> gnome list -- he said that chasing msft is foolish, that chasing the
> mac would make far more sense. which it would, because linux is far
> more flexible than the mac, but the mac has a gui that eats for
> breakfast the best that msft has to offer.
>

Yup. Probably cause they have been working on it longer (before Bill 
"acquired" it).

>
> mandrake isn't doing all that well in europe, either -- suse is doing
> much better there, because despite its many obvious shortcomings, it
> has a caldera-like desire to achieve and maintain stability. mandrake
> is in many ways little more than a broken red hat.

It's true. I have yet to see Mandrake running seriously in a server room... 
it's invariably RedHat, Debian, sometimes Slackware or (very rarely) Caldera. 
I understand that SuSE is common in Europe and 7.2 and 7.3 Pro are getting 
rave reviews as a server load, but for all intents and purposes, SuSE just 
doesn't exist in the North American corporate market. <FWIW, I am running 
SuSE 7.2 Pro>

I am starting to see more and more OpenBSD which points to greater security 
awareness and an emphasis on locking down networked systems.... sadly, 
something that we are currently missing - there is no real 
"security-oriented" Linux distro.
-- 
burns
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