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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