On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:10 pm, Frankie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I bought APC magazine here in Australia recently, and > they had a huge linux article comparing all the major > distros for desktop use... > > They didn't rate mdk9 all that highly, (same score as > redhat8 and behind lycros and the latest lindows, but > ahead of SUSE and all the others) > > Anwyay, in the article they mentioned that 9.1 was likely > to be mandrakes last distro.. they said mandrake had > committed to 9.1 but after that all bets are off.. > > > Anyone know if thats true?? is there some mdk release > that I have failed to read?? > > I hope like hell I don't have to go elsewhere, but if I > do, it might as well be sooner rather then later.... > > > Any info would be much appreciated. > > > rgds > > Franki
Franki, depending on what magazine you read you'll get different opinions. I don't know that *APC-mag*, but judging from the statements above the author knows next to nothing about linux. You see : Lindows and Lycoris are *discount* , down-scaled versions of linux, not full distro's. Furthermore they are not *true* linuxes (for example, when you log into one of those, you'll have root-privileges, thus omitting one of the major benefits of linux : security !). If you really want to compare distros, go to : http://www.distrowatch.com that'll change your mind. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.0 - kernel 2.4.19.24 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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