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Interview with Mandrake Linux Founder Gael Duval
LinuxQuestions
talks with Gael Duval about the past, present and future of Mandrake
Linux. "LQ) Before releasing the first Mandrake version (which
was based on Red Hat) you were working on a Slackware-based OS. Any regrets
on that distro switch? Do you think things would be different had you not
made that change? GD) No regret at all, for a simple reason: it was
not serious anymore to release a Linux distribution without a good package
management like RPM. I seriously considered to switch to Debian as a base
because at the time, Red Hat's reaction was very unclear (as far as I know,
forking from a commercial Linux distribution never happened before
Mandrake). But back in 1998, Debian's installation procedure was really not
friendly at all. As a result, a key success of Mandrake was also that all
packages made for Red Hat were compatible with Mandrake, including
commercial packages. So the choice of RPM was the good one."
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