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. [quality stuff snipped] > 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. -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Was it something I said? And the stars look down. Linux 2.4.18-21mdk 4:45pm up 3 days, 16:49, 7 users, load average: 0.28, 0.28, 0.25
