I got nothing to do with Mandrake execpt purchase the software and enjoy it and this list. I seemed to me that the fact the kernal changed from 2.2.x to 2.4.x and KDE had moved from a 1.0.x had a LOT more to do with it than the IPO. Of course i did not have the great ability to read minds you seem to have. I would wonder (I bet you know this too though) why you would be "afraid to change MANDRAKE" but not debian. > im started to read this doc and i agree with you that its a normal and > good thing to make such kind of standartization, cause every > linux-distribution seemed to made its own structure and was not very > compatible with the other ones. > but lets tell the truth: if mandrake made this really great step, with > changing the directory-structure, updating some important libs, specially > glibc, updating gcc (this is a special point too), for my taste you had to > wait one - three months more till you released the 8.0 one, cause this 8.0 > was not a real 0 one it was more an 7.9 i think. and the reason for this 0 > release was not a rational one, depending on a development of a > distribution, it was cause mandrake was going public on the financial > market. please dont tell me the 8.0 release had nothing to do with the > going public thing. its clear that your managment wanted this release > BEFORE you were gone to the stock market. > but anyway i installed the 8.0 release on one of our webservers and its > running fine till now, but for a heavy-equipped router (4 networkcards, > wireless, etc), im sad to tell you i choosed a debian distribution, cause > i was afraid to change a mk-8.0-distro in a way that this router would > work. > > r. > > z. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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