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)
- 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. ;)
LLaP
bero
