On Sat Aug 17 19:53 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Having read your reasoning, the idea of replacing Mandrake with RedHat is 
> loopy, on a server or elsewhere. RedHat offer you less choices than Mandrake. 
> Mandrake and SuSe, for example, _prefer_ KDE and so write most of their tools 
> to it. RedHat essentially *requires* GNOME, militantly markets GNOME-alone.

Thierry has covered that.  But I do agree that since 8.x, Mandrake has
definitely been a better Red Hat than Red Hat.

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> Mandrake seems to have a genius for picking good versions and variants of 
> things. Very rarely do they release a distro and then immediately afterwards 
> have a security issue to patch, and they were early adopters of successful 
> systems and services such as postfix. Counterbalancing this, their system for 
> netting all bug reports seems to have leaks - at least from a user's 
> perspective - or perhaps there simply aren't enough people on the incoming 
> end to deal with them all.

I think I've come up with the best way of describing Mandrake: an
amalgam of good ideas from Red Hat, Debian, and MandrakeSoft.  All in
all, imho, an unbeatable combination.

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Levi Ramsey
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