Re: I am amazed....

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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 05:59:08 GMT

Joseph wrote:

> Pardon me, but I am not some 16 yr. old kid with an urge to troll....I am
> a late middle aged adult who started learning linux about 2+ yrs. ago.
>
> What amazes & puzzles me is the amount of animosity traditionally directed
> at Mandrake by so many people in the Red Hat community. I really am at a
> loss as to why this is.
>
> One example is how that even now that Red Hat has done what it just did (I
> am not throwing stones.), I see so many people in this community wanting
> to run to another quasi-commercial package (SuSe) rather than Mandrake.
>
> Doesn't it seem obvious that SuSe will likely do a similar thing down the
> road now that it has been aquired by Novell?
>
> Without coming back as if I were the enemy, could someone please explain
> to me the why of this? I have been using Mandrake since Version 7.1, and
> I have loaded & tried several of the distros including Red Hat.
>
> I know that it's no big thing, but this really upsets me; Mandrake is a
> good distro, why is it so poorly considered in the Red Hat Community?
>
> Thanks...
>
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Just my 2 cents based on my limited experience, I have been installing
each new update since SuSE 7.0, Redhat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0. I have
always preferred SuSE because they seem to give more of a well-rounded
set of applications but their installer is not as freindly as RedHat or
Mandrake. I very much hope that the Novell deal won't dummy-down SuSE's
previous work as some fear it might. My experience with Redhat is that
I'll continue to be informed about it in case I decide to certify, but
their personal distro is very limted compared to SuSE's in some areas
the home user would want and the Pro version costs twice as much because
of, I presume, name recognition among non Linux-aware suits since it
doesn't give anything more than SuSE Pro. Mandrake has always been
between the two in my mind. A great installer with more a more well
rounded applications suite than Redhat. But once installed I've always
had the same problem with all versions of Mandrake on 4 different
machines, the slowest being an Athlon Thunderbird 900mhz with PC133 RAM,
Mandrake has always run very slow compared to SuSE and Redhat, very slow
to launch programs and slow to get to system settings boxes etc. I've
never understood why and since I'm not committed to Mandrake I've not
been in a rush to tweak it all out, I'll just stick eith SuSE (as long
as they really are SuSE).

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