[Cooker] An interesting source of comparison.

[Gourichon Stephane 01 44 27 88 04]

Perhaps you at Mandrakesoft already know, but here is a document
http://www.betips.net/challenge/challenge.html 
that offer an experiment to try out to see which of BeOS and Linux
seems best suited to an end user.

You should read it and imagine doing it (or really do it).
It reveals where efforts have to be done.
  
Mandrake has already done a great (and successful) deal of efforts,
but some things still need to be done. (Actually, a good part of what
remains to be done lies in the guts of the Desktop, I think of things
like file-application association and its customization by user. It
would be worthy to post this kind of mail to other discussion group
related to the user interface, for example kde and gnome developpers
discussion list, wouldn't it ?)

See also the next mail I'll send to cooker.

Does a more powerful, and multiuser, system, has to be more difficult
to use/configure ? Maybe yes, maybe no. But anyway Linux has to (and
will) keep customizable far beyond any fine-tuned but non-adaptable
proprietary OS.
  
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