[LUGSB] ICON Events

[Siddhartha Basu]

Hi

Mark Drago wrote:
> 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.
Yes, now it's publicly available. It is called Mandrake 10.0 community 
edition and initially it was released only to club memebers. Here are 
two reviews about it.
http://madpenguin.org/Article1040.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6327
And some comments here
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8524
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8550

   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.
As far as this year ICON install a thon is concerned, fedora core 1 
seems to a reasonably good choice now. It was released a while back, 
many of lugsb memebers are running it on their machine and are 
satisfied. In fact, we have seen it installed in a tablet pc during one 
of our meeting. The people who are going to install it in others machine 
during ICON will also feel comfortable doing it. I think these were some 
of the points we considered while chossing mandrake 9.2 in last year's
ICON.


> 
> --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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>>Sarang Lakare
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