On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:17:54 +0100 Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Would it have been better if Mandrake were acquired instead? > > Strange times ahead . . . But could you, or perhaps more appropriately, *want to*, buy Mandrake? It would be kinda like buying Debian, you'd just be getting the name, you would be faced with the *hundreds* of community volunteers jumping ship, and that is really what makes Mandrake a distro, all those package maintainers who do it for nothing. Suse and RedHat are different beasts entirely, from what I can see, most of the construction of the various components that make up the distros is done "in house" by paid developers, hence they are not really "free as in beer" distros. Have I got this straight? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Your wig steers the gig. -- Lord Buckley
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