On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote:
> It is the most user friendly Linux distro.
Of course it is.
Please read *between* my lines. ;-)
> But. who cares if netatalk isn't included? Hell, I've never used it. I consider
> myself a power user and, for myself anyways, the lack of it hasn't hampered me
> in the slightest. For that matter I don't know what the hell it is. Obviously
> has no relevence to the user friendliness or the power that comes stock with
> Linux Mandrake.
I just wanted to compare the user-friendlyness of MacOS and the user-friendlyness
of Mandrake which doesn't offer services for MacOS (netatalk) but for Windoze
and Novell.
> If a user ever feels absolutely devastated by not having it there is nothing
> stopping them from installing it themselves. So they have to take 10 precious
> minutes out of there life. Life can be tough sometimes.
Of course I have built my own rpms, but *I* have to watch for updates for every
rpm of my own which is not included in the distribution. If I make a new install
Mandrake then I doesn't need to watch out for new versions because the rpms are
already up to date.
Maybe you should read my posting again:
I was asking *why* netatalk is not included in Linux Mandrake!
(Licensing pbs? Insecure? Or what?)
> Perhaps you should focus on the more important things in Linux life, rather
> than exclusion of a totally unnecessary package to the every-day-operational-use
> of Linux Mandrake.
If you feel it "totally unnecessary" that Mandrake only offers services for
Windoze and Novell but not for MacOS, then *this* job will be done by other
distros and *this* market (services for MacOS clients) is maybe totally lost for
Mandrake which is in all other points a very good distro.
And, please, don't make the mistake and think that netatalk is "totally
unnecessary"... it's just *your* humble opinion!
regards,
Frank
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > I'm asking this now the third time and I would be really, really
> > glad if someone will answer my question.
> >
> > Linux Mandrake claims to be one of the most user-friendly OS's
> > (as a Linux OS) and this is a relation to the user-friendly
> > MacOS, but...
> >
> >
> > ... why is the netatalk package not included in Linux Mandrake?
> >
> >
> > Linux Mandrake is therefore the *only* distribution *I* know
> > which doesn't include netatalk!
> > IMHO this is a bad reputation...
> >
> > BTW: I'm using Mandrake since 5.0 and 7.1 is very nice.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > Frank Meurer
>
>
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