Sounds good to me can't wait Jeanette ----- Original Message ----- From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 8:05 PM Subject: [expert] Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > > > I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of > > my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install > > RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he > > said: > > > > "Mandrake is dead. > > Now if we were Microsoft, he'd get a $100,000,000,000 lawsuit for this. ;) > Tell him the fact that we don't do this is enough of a reason to > support Mandrake. ;) > > > The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate KDE > > with RedHat. Now that RedHat has KDE as an option, what's the need for > > Mandrake?" > > Until we have a better list (should be soon), you can tell him Mandrake > 6.0 is > > - faster (pentium optimizations) > - easier (some packages better preconfigured; user creation at > installation time; desktopcfg to allow easy switching between KDE, > GNOME and Plain X; more packages) > - less space consuming (bzip2'ed man pages) > - more current (for example kernel 2.2.9, kde 1.1.1final, gnome-libs > 1.0.9) > - better with hardware compatibility (CD writers, ISDN, ...) > - closer to its users (did you ever get a reply to a feature suggestion > or something from RH?) > > I'm quite sure there are more things worth mentioning, but I'm currently > working on some other important stuff. ;) > > LLaP > bero > > >
