Re: [Cooker] Mdk and lack of providing real upgrades...

[Tim]

Just a quick note... Unlike Windows users, you can always download the
source for a program and compile it to get it working with your libraries.
In some cases you might have to upgrade a few of the libraries, but the
ability to recompile programs for your system is a powerful thing that
Windows users don't have. I think I might get a funny look from MS if I
asked for the source for Office XP so I could compile it for my win95
system.... ;)


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> Yes, this goes WAY beyond Mandrake, to every distro out there.  I share
his
> frustration.  How can we on one hand decry M$ for tying products to their
OS
> while on the other hand tying applications to certain versions of a distro
> due to dependencies?  Doesn't M$ have dependencies?
>
> > David Walluck
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> Eaon (already feeling the heat of the flames)
>
>