Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process [LWN.net]

Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process

Posted Feb 4, 2004 4:59 UTC (Wed) by hedgeek (guest, #19097)
Parent article: Significant change in Mandrake Linux Development Process

I think this new direction for Mandrake is excellent. The bleeding
edge distro's like 9.2, (which I purchased for 80 bucks) absolutely was
ugly and broken out of the box. (Not to mention such marketing snafu's
as), 'Run WindozXP under Linux'. A reference to 'VMWARE', of course
although this was a highlight on the PowerPack box set, not * or
anything stating, 'Must purchase license, 350 bucks'. In other words,
'Absolutley nothing that you can't download yourself with any Linux
Distribution'.

9.1 was and is a far more reliable and graphically pleasing distro.

As for techinical jargon, 'Stable', Uh, did I hear FreeBSD?

Until Mandrake 9.2 I had a certain amount of 'evangelism' for
recommending it as a real replacement for MicroSquish products.

I will be looking forward to downloading *for free* Mandrakes next
'stable' offering. Until then, I continue to use FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE.

:-)

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