Although I had been a bit harsh about Mandrake I have to agree with
Steve...As long as Mandrakesoft puts out a reliable, stable, friendly and
powerful distro then screw the rest of the other distros and long live
Mandrake...I for one will be buying the full package soon and I don't plan
on buying any other full package...
Philip Hewitt
Power to the Penguin
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Philp
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 6:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake
Martin Cleaver wrote:
>
> Doug Brown wrote:
>
> > > In response I muttered a couple of things about extra tidbits that
come
> > > with Mandrake but I did not sound very convincing, even to myself.
> >
> > Are you forgetting about cost? RH 6.0 Official is $80.00 with the core
> > version $40.00. I paid, like, $1.89 plus S&H for Mandrake 5.3.
> > Big difference!
>
> Another reason why Mandrake is doomed... how can they keep on updating it,
if
> they don't get any morey for it? Simple answer: they don't. I learned my
> lesson when KDE updated to 1.1.1 and installing it on my Mandrake proved
> impossible (worse: I lost my Xwindows)
> If you want it cheap, download it and burn your own. Mandrake is not the
> standard and necver will be. Pity. It was nice while it lasted. :-(
Why does it need to be the standard? And exactly what are we judging it
against? My Mandrake installation runs exactly the same software as a
distribution that I might build myself. It's not like they're shipping
BSD libc with it or anything...
All this "top of the market" crap really drags on me. Can't we just
have a cool little distribution to play with?
--
Steve Philp
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