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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] rh to mandrake
I agree. There are way too many distos that are beta. Marketing
Departments
have been
I think it's a little early to pass judgment. Many devoted users and
developers have spent many hours of their personal
Not sure what you mean here Roman as we "pass judgement" constantly,
making decisions about what software we use. If we hadn't "passed
judgement" on Linux, and decided it
Larry Marshall wrote:
When installing can I browse through every package and install whatever I
want?
In expert mode you can browse through the package listings and
select/deselect which ones you want installed. You can't browse through
each rpm package though...nor would you want to.
Larry Marshall wrote:
Sometimes I think that it was Mandrake's marketing department that
released RH7.0 :-) Red Hat's virtue has always been that they weren't
quick to incorporate the latest whizbang thingie. That seems to be a
Red Hat's virtue? Marketing? All companies use
I agree. There are way too many distos that are beta. Marketing Departments
have been known to shoot themselves many times in the foot.
Good point :-)
Buggy software in the Linux world can get difficult to iron out. But, then
again, that's part of the fun of learning. Or, is it?
Is this
