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Mandrake Clarifies its Future
fabiolrs writes "Mandrake Linux has an article in response to the message they sent on march 11th. They claim that because of user help they are "cash-flow positive"! That is great news since Linux community is now sure it will continue using one of the nicest distros available!"
This is the very first
Go mandrake!
It seems that back in the late 1800's in America (I mention this for those /.ers who don't happen to live in the U.S.) there was this saloon in the
West that was kind of a run-down, ramshackle joint that was frequented by
a few loyal patrons and not too many others. I think it was California, but
it could have been Oregon or someplace similar -- well, the location isn't
really relevant to the story but if you're really interested you might
be able to dig a bit on Google to find out. Basically, while the saloon
didn't go out of its way to publicize itself to out-of-towners (not much
point given that it was in a fairly remote area) it managed to do a fairly
steady trade despite the occasional brawl that caused property damage and
the persistent requests from a particular fellow for free drinks.
More nights than not, the proprietor of the saloon would watch this drunk come wandering in through the doors, sit down, and lay a line on him about how he's trying to pull things together and how he'd just make enough to keep himself in beans and couldn't the bartender just pour him a shot or two to fuzz the edges and whatnot. And again, more nights than not, the bartender would take pity on the poor guy and pull out the whiskey.
Now, this went on for some time, and while the bartender was an easy mark even he had his limit. So one night, after the bartender already gave the fellow three shots on the house, he decides to cut the guy off.
"Look," he says, "while I'm really sorry to hear that things still aren't working out for you I don't think that I can keep giving you free drinks. I've got to make ends meet too, you know."
So the drunk says, "I don't suppose you've got anything I can do to get another drink tonight?"
The proprietor, not particularly wanting the fellow to hang around all night and certainly not expecting him to take him up on his proposition, says "Well, you see that spittoon over there? If you take a swig out of that I suppose I could give you a drink to wash it down."
No sooner did he finish his last sentence than the drunk walked over to the spittoon and hefted it off of the floor. Before the bartender could stop him, the fellow put the rim to his lips, tipped the bottom of the metal container up into the air, and began to swallow. To the bartender's dismayal, the guy continued to slowly chug the thick contents of the spittoon. When he had finally gulped the final remnants of the container, he threw it to the ground, wiped off his lips with his shirt cuff, and gagged, "So, do I get the drink?"
"You can have the bottle!" exclaimed the bartender, immediately pouring the first shot. "But tell me, why did you swallow the whole damn thing? You only needed to swig it to earn the drink."
The drunk replies: "It was all one long string."
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My first first post! Huzzah!
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Again.
Oh well.
Play with my webcams and lights here
Maybe I could set up a webpage, begging.
I, too, could be "cash-flow positive"!
Woo-Hoo!
I have to tell you! This is the very first post! Check it out, yo! sup?
My karma is close to 200, I am not going to waste any of it on getting modded down three times for a FP when I can do it for free as an AC. You're not as fast as me, deal with it. I handed you your hat.
I'm very happy to present you the
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That's HERESY! They must be destroyed! Mandrake is DYING ! ! ! !!!
...when you submit something that was news two weeks ago, have it rejected, and then have it show up when it is no longer news?
Blah, who cares? BSD is better.
We now have a positive cash-flow. You can all stop chipping in.
You win the coveted "most inane/pointless/redundant post of the day" award.
"This is good news"
Really? Thanks for the info!
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Anybody have or heard of rendering issues under Win2k with a Radeon 8500 such as seeing gridlines,can't minimize to desktop,super bright desktop,dark Q3???? The gridline problem seems to be local to realism mods such as Urban Terror and True Combat. Feedback??
Mandrake sounds more like a misdemeanor penalty than a public benefit to me. "Will you choose to submit to 96 hours of community service, or will you choose to be forced to use Mandrake Linux?"
A quick search turned up this.
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SuSe is based on an older NetBSD kernel (2.2.14 I believe), whereas Mandrake uses WINE. Also, SuSe is gnome-only, and Mandrake can do KDE or Gnome or whatever.
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I think mandrake sucks. they throw to much crap (and I mean that in terms of matureity of software)into their distro, and thier URPMI utility sucks. the best thing they provided for the comunity was the autodetection installer. other than that, their drake tools are almost a waist of time and the Drake icons are fugly.
Debian is much better IMHO at all of these points, and thier woody installer is easy for some one who has used Linux for about 6 months. 3.1 will have a new installer that autodetects and after that, I think debian will take eat up mandrakes market, good thing Suse has moved towards servers.
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