Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 May 1999, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
>
> > I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of
> > my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install
> > RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he
> > said:
> >
> > "Mandrake is dead.
>
> Now if we were Microsoft, he'd get a $100,000,000,000 lawsuit for this. ;)
> Tell him the fact that we don't do this is enough of a reason to
> support Mandrake. ;)
>
> > The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate KDE
> > with RedHat. Now that RedHat has KDE as an option, what's the need for
> > Mandrake?"
>
> Until we have a better list (should be soon), you can tell him Mandrake
> 6.0 is
>
> - faster (pentium optimizations)
> - easier (some packages better preconfigured; user creation at
> installation time; desktopcfg to allow easy switching between KDE,
> GNOME and Plain X; more packages)
Might I toss in a vote for trying to incorporate something like Debian's
configuration stage into the package management? That's the ONE thing
that is truly missing from Red Hat's manager. When I installed a
package in Debian and got done answering the questions, I knew that
package was ready to run. Under Red Hat/Mandrake/etc, it's a hunting
game trying to figure out exactly which configuration file I need to
edit in order to get something resembling a working package out of it.
> - less space consuming (bzip2'ed man pages)
> - more current (for example kernel 2.2.9, kde 1.1.1final, gnome-libs
> 1.0.9)
> - better with hardware compatibility (CD writers, ISDN, ...)
> - closer to its users (did you ever get a reply to a feature suggestion
> or something from RH?)
>
> I'm quite sure there are more things worth mentioning, but I'm currently
> working on some other important stuff. ;)
And one personal pet peeve... could we PLEASE get some more external
support into PHP3? That package is damn near bare and makes it
impossible to use without repackaging the SRPM (which, of course, you
don't get when you buy the CheapBytes...). You ship PostgreSQL in the
distribution, why not include support for it in PHP3 so people aren't
left wondering why the manual says the commands should work, but all you
get is errors trying to run the scripts. Damned frustrating.
(And pretty far off-topic for a newbie list as well, my apologies!)
--
Steve Philp
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