On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 03:10, 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
The distro has been standing well enough so far, and with the release of Mandrake 9.1, I think they're going to be scoring quite a bit higher than any of the other releases - RH 8.1, if it's going to be anything, has to be far ahead of RH 8.0 - far ahead in order to get any better ratings. Either which, IMHO, MDK 9.1 is going to really raise a ruckus due to it's overall setup/installation/ease of use/kernel version/ability to deal with hardware/ability to deal with drivers; it really is a "polished" version - lacking the vast majority of problems that 9.0 had - hence it will live longer. Now, if the MandrakeSoft management kicks the bucket, that's a different story - but this is one of the best "customer maintained" distros. If they fold, it's their mistake, and hopefully the code will stick with the devs and the public... -- Fri Mar 21 06:30:01 EST 2003 06:30:01 up 2 days, 8:15, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** I'm a GENIUS! I want to dispute sentence structure with SUSAN SONTAG!!
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