I am not interested in a distro war , but it is interesting to compare package versions between distros, so I thought I would do that wrt gentoo.
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:39:17 +1300 Linux Shop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mandrake 10.0 Community is now available for download to club members > via Bittorrent. > > See www.mandrakelinux.com > > - Kernel 2.6.3 same > - XFree86 4.3 same > - Glibc 2.3.3 with Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL) support 2.3.2, not sure what NPTL is > - GCC 3.3.2 same > - Apache 2.0.48, same >Samba 3.0.2, 2.2.8a >MySQL 4.0.18 4.0.17 >ProFTPD 1.2.9, same >Postfix 2.0.18, 2.0.16 > - OpenSSH 3.6.1p2 3.7.1-p2 > - KDE 3.2, same >GNOME 2.4.2, same >IceWM 1.2.13 same > - OpenOffice.org 1.1, same >KOffice 1.3.7, 1.3 >Gnumeric 1.2.6 1.2.2 > - Mozilla 1.6, same >The GIMP 1.2.5, same >XMMS 1.2.9 1.2.8 > > So, this Mandrake is pretty up to date by the look of it. Also bear in mind that often in gentoo you can run later versions by running them from "unstable", for example i am running gimp 2.0-pre2 very successfully, and it is VERY nice. I guess you can do the same in mandrake by using cooker. > > ------------------ www.linuxshop.co.nz ------------------ > Daniel Robertson > Linux Shop Ltd > P O Box 108001, Symonds St, Auckland 1035 > ------------------ www.linuxshop.co.nz ------------------ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
