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Well, it'll passI'm not sure what's to dislike about Linux-Mandrake. Yes, most of the work done on the distro was taken from RedHat's own. Isn't that the pitfalls of Open Source, though? When the Open Source ideals begin to collide with the market world, you'll see people taking others' work and making a profit from it.
Quite simply, in the Open Source mentality, the amount of work you produce has no direct correlation to the money you'll make. It's something we all realised when we got on this boat, or so I hope.
Anyway; Linux-Mandrake is a good distro. It installs easily. It's "nice". But people, it's Linux! This is like arguing about the value of a novel because of the choice of covers. Every time a Linux-Mandrake CD sells, it's a Linux CD being sold. Whether they call it Linux-Mandrake, Corel Linux, Slackware, or Microsoft Linux (eek), it's still Linux gaining territory.
Besides, I have a sneaking suspicion that this backlash against Linux-Mandrake is only motivated by the fact it's a 'user-friendly' distro. We geeks can be so macho at times... It may not be about cars, but it's about processing power, how much wasabi we can eat or what Linux distro we use. (I'm guilty of all of the above.) Fine. I suspect with the coming of Armed Linux and WinLinux 2000, geeks will consider Linux Mandrake to be true to the hardcore Linux mentality, and turn to bashing those sissy distros that don't even bother to wipe the FAT32 partition.
Me, whether the newcomer installs Linux by sweating over dozens of manuals over two months, or by popping in a CD and running Linux under Win32, I don't really care. They're still getting a taste of what a real OS is.
"There is no surer way to ruin a good discussion than to contaminate it with the facts."
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Re:Suspicious...
Whoa... the woman on this page the the same woman plastered all over my school's walls on posters advertising an upcoming dance. Weird. Probably clipart or something.
Jeff Higgins
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Re:Suspicious... AgreedAlright, this is kind of redundant, but I might as well say what I see. I guess that's what you get from being an anthro major turned computer fan... First thing I did after going to armed.net was go on over to What is Armed Linux". Cute girl, designer pose. Wow! If I wasn't already already a junkie I might give it a whirl.
Look at the site design. That's pretty hip, yet concise. Perhaps a bit too sparse on detail, agreed. Then again, their site is crawling right now... I haven't checked it all out yet. What I noticed was that it's very unlike most open source sites (well, apart from Raster,
I find this stuff interesting, the sort of cultural differences online and to sort of see an example of the meshing of the two is an example of what might come in the next few years. People are hearing about Linux in the news. Some are curious. But most already tackled the basic learning curve of Windoze and that's all they know. Now they're promised a safe route through installation that promises not to touch windoze, and then they have a dual boot with little hassle, or so they're promised. That's what a lot of people want, something that doesn't threaten them.
So, as I see it, it's just another marketing approach to distribute a product. I don't know anything about the people behind the distro. I plan on finding some out if possible. But if they're aiming to be a consumer distro, I feel you can see where they're aiming. Not the distro for me or the servers I play with, but some people targetting a new market. RH might be doing quite well in the news and market, but they're still aiming for the more tech oriented than most users out there.
I can't wait until the next round in the drive for the consumer market. We've got Corel coming in as well now. Each with a different marketing approach. Armed seems to really be aiming for the home user, and that alone.
Just a few of my ramblings...
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It's a global conspiracy...
...to exterminate all linux users.
#include xfiles.h
Let's see.. it's a linux distro that behaves with windows... to learn more about it (what.asp), you come to a page with cute women -- the graphic is entitled 'chick.gif', for goodness' sake!
Are they really just using sex appeal to lure people over to the dark side, never to return?
Incidentally, I know I've seen that graphic elsewhere before. Anyone know what it's from? -
armed.net used Windows.
On the FAQ-page the last question:
Q: Why ASP pages?
A: They are quick, easy, and will run on Linux now! We use PERL too.
Why, then, do I get a page looking like:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '8007000e'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] System resource exceeded.
/forums/default.asp, line 11
when I go to the page http://www.armed.net/forums/default.asp (update before I could post this. It now says "Sorry, temporarily offline due to the Slashdot effect."
I guess the word 'will' is an important word here. Personally I don't trust an OS (or in this case a distribution) whose web server is not running on it. (I've heard some Microsloth sites are running Linux. Anybody got any facts on this?) -
armed.net used Windows.
On the FAQ-page the last question:
Q: Why ASP pages?
A: They are quick, easy, and will run on Linux now! We use PERL too.
Why, then, do I get a page looking like:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '8007000e'
[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] System resource exceeded.
when I go to the page http://www.armed.net/forums/default.asp (update before I could post this. It now says "Sorry, temporarily offline due to the Slashdot effect."
I guess the word 'will' is an important word here. Personally I don't trust an OS (or in this case a distribution) whose web server is not running on it. (I've heard some Microsloth sites are running Linux. Anybody got any facts on this?)