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...

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