Thank you for reading the whole message and not being overly sensitive. The
reason I wrote such a stinging message in the first place was due to the
lack of response to the problems by people that would rather be led around
on their favorite distributions corporate change and could not see no wrong
in the distribution. Thank you for looking past this prejudice and trying to
solve the real issue.
I agree with you that 7.0 + is not as backwards compatible. I understand
what you are saying about older hardware. But, I do believe the original
idea of Linux was so that it worked on all of these old pieces of hardware.
Ive run Win98 on the same two computers and they work but they sure do bog
down. But when I run Linux, I can do things on these old computers that just
wouldn't be possible under Win98 because of speed. I thought the whole
reason for switching to Linux was to get away from Winbloze. Now, by your
own argument, it sounds like Mandrake wishes to make their distribution more
like windo$e. No backward compatability. Have you tried Win2000 yet? This is
a major problem with Win2000. And Win200 runs faster on my computers than
Win98. Can you believe that? I don't like Windoze. I love working with
Linux. I'd hate to see people lose focus of the Linux objective just to make
a profit. Thank you for your patience.
SA
>From: Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Formerly: Mandrake 7.02 is messed up
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:32:18 +0100
>
>On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 13:13 -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote:
> > Now that I've had some time to cool down, let me start by apologizing to
> > those diehard Mandrake people that couldn't read past the Subject before
> > getting offended and defensive of their distribution.
>
>I read past the subject and I even read this mail till the end.
>And I understand quite well what you mean. I do get the point
>you're making.
>
>I cannot say anything about the mouse-problem or other problems.
>
>Just about the CD issue. You made it very clear yourself in this
>mail.
>
>1. You have old hardware and new hardware.
>
>2. You have an "old" Mandrake version and a new version.
>
>See the picture?
>
>Mandrake's distribution aims at the hardware of today *without*
>carrying all the back-compatibility with it. The optimization
>for 586 cpus makes that very clear.
>
>So my questions are:
>1.
>Why do you want to run a distribution of that kind on hardware
>which is not fit for it?
>2.
>Why do you have to upgrade the older machine at all?
>A know someone using RedHat 5.2 with some upgraded packages. It
>suits his hardware and his purposes.
>In our office we have a 486SX running DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1 for
>testing and for some cardgames and for some newbies who never
>saw a computer at all.
>We'd never get the idea to install Win95/98 on this box.
>
>IMHO there are really stable distributions with rocksolid
>conventional setup for hardware which is not up to a bleeding
>edge distribution. Mandrake 7.0 never wanted to be and never
>said to be such a backwards-compatible distribution.
>
>It all comes down to one of Linux' main principles:
>For every purpose and every liking and every limit there is a
>way to go under Linux. You just have to choose what you and your
>hardware want and are able to do.
>
>So, maybe I'm a diehard Mandrake disciple. But maybe I just see
>the meaning of an old proverb (popular in Germany): Each pot has
>a matching lid. There is no lid matching all the pots.
>
>I think this has nothing to do with marketing or "World
>Domination Now!". Mandrake made the aim of Air clear. Like
>Coral's CEO Mr. Coupland did when he stated that they want to
>make Corel Linux as similar to Windows as possible, so not to
>offend possible convertites with something too alien to them.
>
>That's another attitude. SuSE has different aims and Debian is
>another story altogether.
>
>Get the picture?
>
>wobo
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