why is everybody overlooking the Mdk alternative?!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 19, 2004 04:59 AM
"I have been a long time Red Hat user and developer (...) I decided to head back to slackware or try out Suse."
disclaimer: the following is not a troll, but a sincere question.
Why would you go from RH to slackware or Suse and not consider Mandrake? As a RH developer, you are used to RPM-based distros. but Suse is even more corporate-oriented (read: big $$ oriented) than RH. As for slackware, well, its a good distro for sure, but much further form RH than Mandrake. I assumed you choose to contribute to RH because of its technology and not just because its "American", right?
Now, Mandrake is RPM-based, has urpmi, arguably superior tools to RH and has promised to keep a GPLed community version fully suported. Does that not seem attractive to you? Again - I really would appreciate if you, or any other disillusioned RH user/developer, would help me understand your choice.
Finally. if you want a distro *really* centered on a community, Debian comes to mind as a clear "no contest" winner. What do you think?
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why is everybody overlooking the Mdk alternative?!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 19, 2004 04:59 AMdisclaimer: the following is not a troll, but a sincere question.
Why would you go from RH to slackware or Suse and not consider Mandrake? As a RH developer, you are used to RPM-based distros. but Suse is even more corporate-oriented (read: big $$ oriented) than RH. As for slackware, well, its a good distro for sure, but much further form RH than Mandrake. I assumed you choose to contribute to RH because of its technology and not just because its "American", right?
Now, Mandrake is RPM-based, has urpmi, arguably superior tools to RH and has promised to keep a GPLed community version fully suported. Does that not seem attractive to you? Again - I really would appreciate if you, or any other disillusioned RH user/developer, would help me understand your choice.
Finally. if you want a distro *really* centered on a community, Debian comes to mind as a clear "no contest" winner. What do you think?
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