Lee wrote: > implement was go back to using 7.1. I think Mandrake, like Caldera and Red Hat > have adopted the M$ new distro development model. After releasing a really good > distro (Win 95, COL 2.2, Mandrake 7.1) follow it with one not quite so good and > degrade the overall quality with each new release toward the ultimate crapzoid > of XP. >
Huh!? Are you REALLY saying that Win95 was better than Win98SE? Are you REALLY saying that COL 2.2 was better than 2.4? Speaking as someone who's used all of the above, I would have to say that my experience sharply contrasts yours. Win98SE was definately a better product than the original Win95, which in light of the hype surrounding it is a much better candidate for "ultimate crapzoid" than XP is. And it was the quality of eDesktop 2.4 that finally pushed me over the edge to using linux full time at home. Further, once you get past some of the installation issues with COL 3.1, it's a fine product in itself. I'm very pleased with both of my 3.1 installs at home. Neither of the Mandrake releases I've installed (7.1, 8.0) are as good, in my experience. I've also been using Win2K SP1 at work since March with very few problems. It is, by far, a better product than any of the Win9x releases. If not for my philosophical difference with how MS goes about doing business, I wouldn't mind using Win2K at home. And I really must question your opinion of XP being an "ultimate crapzoid". Although I have no experience with using XP, I've read that the primay issues with the O/S are over licensing, not quality. Unfortunately, if MS hadn't stifled every viable competitor over the last 10 years, a product of the quality of Win2K would've been released in 1997 and the computing industry would be light years ahead of where it is now. Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
