> If you folk have checked other distros lately, I think you will find > that few if any are as mature as this one in as many areas. I might > think of making my own distro using Mandrake as a base if this one goes > bust, but switching to any of the others? Forget it. I am here cause > this one was friendly at a personal, technical, and corporate level, and > the others were decidedly unfriendly at one or more of those levels. If > you have ever asked a question on a RH flame errr... help list, you know > very well what I mean. S.u.S.E. is so far from GPL that I would never > consider them, though they seem evil enough to be propped up by IBM and > Intel to the tune of more than $45 million (Mandrake needs less than a > tenth of that).
This is an important context to put the article I wrote in. If I thought their was a better alternative to move to I would have just moved. But the fact is the alternatives are either: a) Technically insufficent. b) Have closed development processes. c) Laking a good community. d) Simply a pain to install and use. This is a summary, I won't mention names or point fingers to avoid turning this into "xyz distro suxxors." -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
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