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[Mark Drago]

Sarang,

When I was writing up that bit on Mandrake I was thinking about you.  I
very much expected you to write up something about Mandrake.  I had
heard that Mandrake 10.0 had been released, but was unsure if it was
available for public download yet.  I ran Mandrake for a few years and
enjoyed it very much.  I just think that Fedora is in a better place
right now.  Fedora has company backing from Red Hat.  A _large_ majority
of the programmers working on Fedora are Red Hat employees.  Fedora will
be the base for what becomes Red Hat Enterprise Linux later on.
Besides, I think that distributions that are too closely controlled by a
company are lacking in the number of packages available for that
distribution.  This is a real problem for new users.  And, to say that
"Its not clear if Fedora will go all the way" is odd, considering that
Mandrake just recently announced they're leaving the protection of
bancrupty.  It seems that if any distribution is "not clear" about going
all the way, it's Mandrake.  Despite all of this, I still plan on giving
Mandrake 10.0 a try and seeing what they've accomplished in the year
that I've been away from it.  But, I don't think that I would recommend
it to a new user right now.  That's all.

--Mark.

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:52 -0500, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> Mandrake 10.0 is out. You might want to use that.
> 
> Fedora has no company backing.. its like Debian. Its not clear if Fedora will 
> go all the way.
> 
> Sarang
> 
> On Monday 22 March 2004 08:38 pm, Mark Drago wrote:
> > I think we would be best suited pushing Fedora Core 1 as the recommended
> > distribution during the install-a-thon.  I used to recommend both Red
> > Hat and Mandrake, but Mandrake 9.x is a little old and I personally
> > haven't used it in a while.
> 
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