9.0 and 9.1 boxes never hit the shelves here at the main stores such as Fry's Electronic, CompUSA or BestBuy. One day one lonely box of 8.2 was sitting at Fry's next to lots and lots of boxes of Redhat 9, Suse 8.2, and current versions of Lycoris, Lindows, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
I agree with this completely, and I have said so before.
In my opinion that is something that Mandrake needs to put more effort in in order to get themselves noticed with the mainstream public. I know of quite a few people that just pick up a box at any of these stores to try them out just for the fact that they are available there while they were pondering through the store.
Yeah... I don't know if it's a difference between European and American cosummerism or not, but I assure you, lots of (North) Americans would buy the box without prior planning... just because it's in front of them.
Austin
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Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca