Flinsch: Thanks for your reasons. Bye, bye. Chava >From: A V Flinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Distro >Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:55:16 -0500 > >On Wednesday 07 February 2001 18:42, you wrote: > > Knowing that this list belongs to Mandrake users. I want to know the > > bunch of reasons why you picked up mandrake´s distribution. > > I am about to make my decision about wich distribution, that is why I > > joined the list. > > I am newbie not only to mandrake distribution but to linux as well. > > Of course I would like to know the downs of this distribution. > > I know that sometimes picking a distribution is matter of preference as > > is choosing the flavor of an ice cream on a sunny day. > > So feel free to toss your opinions as silly or crazy as they might > > seem. > >I originally chose Mandrake as my distro of choice back with release 6.0, >one of my main reasons was that I had read a redhat book and Mandrake was >laid out the same way. Mandrake was chosen over rh for 4 reasons > >#1 Mandrake came with StarOffice 5.1 (everyone else had 5.0). I was >familiar with SO on Windows and felt that 5.1 was significantly better >than 5.0, and hoped that the same thing held true in Linux. > >#2 The Pentium compile bit. I was buying a new computer to experiment >with Linux on, and felt that the Pentimum optimization was a goot thing. > >#3 KDE > >#4 I liked the logo better. Since I was an old "Mandrake the Magician" >fan, I sort of fell for it. How many other folks out there know who >Lothar (the old name for harddrake) really was? > > > > > >-- >Alex >(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life) > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
