Why Mandrake is Too Cool for UnitedLinux

An anonymous reader says "Mandrake's lastest community (spam) newsletter contains their explanation as to why they won't join in on UnitedLinux. Besides the obvious geek-fun of rolling their own distro, they claim that the underlying idea of UnitedLinux is based on a flawed comparison to the Unix world of the 80's. " I think the whole UnitedLinux thing is lame- the distros that want to be compatible already are. UL is just the 2nd tier distros trying to get attention and ink away from the "evil forces" in North Carolina. I'll just stick to the best distribution and watch the fun from afar ;)

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[Marx_Mrvelous]

Best distro eh? Thats just *begging* to begin a flame war!

Personally I like the idea of United Linux. There's no reason that all Linux venders can't use the same base for rpm compatibility, etc. It'll hapen one way or another. Do you want one company to control the standards, or a shared effort?

Re:Post mdoerated +1 Flaimbait

[flokemon]

Tsk, and how would we get arguments about the best distro if one day everything came under a United Linux?
Go on, admit you would miss the flame wars :)

Re:One OS

[march]

Becareful when you mix Church and State!! There was a recent ruling about this!! :-)

First of all....

[dmarien]

I think this story is a firestarter. Debian is fucking old. Honestly. Get something minimal: slack.

that said... everyone go here, and type in your name... it returns with a cyborg acronym :)

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Re:First of all....

[dmarien]

I dont normally reply to this, but here goes.

first, imma go by lisitng the versions of some popular software packages that slackware is shipping with, then i'll do the same for debian... are you ready... okay - here comes the slackware listing...

apache: 1.3.26 gnome: 1.4.0.8 bind: 9.2.1 kde: 3.0.1 gcc: 2.95.3

wheeee!!! the fun continues with the debian listing...

apache: 1.3.26 gnome: 1.4.1 bind: 9.2.1 kde: 2.2.2 gcc: 2.95.4

fuck. a'ite. i take this back... what the hell happened? i thought debian most mostly outdated? it's more recent than freakin' slack!... hm... okay, well, that said... i don't like their.. um... logo. yeah! that's right, their logo sucks. hehehehehe..... (whatever).

sorry dude, debian is not outdated. I stand corrected.

Re:Linux

[Maverick TimeSurfer]

But Linux geeks don't senslessly and randomly murder large groups of people. And all of those except for 1 and 4 could be applied to Sci-fi fanatics.

Re:mandrake

[BrokenHalo]

I agree that mdk can be fairly groovy (and God knows, it is certainly easy to install). However, it does get seriously bogged down with the dependency hell associated with RPM, especially in 8.2. I didn't have many problems with 8.1, but three weeks of trying to get 8.2 working properly was enough to send me back to Slackware.

In other news!

[Anonymous Coward]

The standard linux desktop, KDE 3.0.2, has just been released

Re:mandrake

[microsoft.CLIT]

If it's so good how come nobody uses it except smelly geeks who wouldn't know a Real OS from a hole in the ground.

it's all about the benjamins

[1000101]

UnitedLinux is the linux community's only chance to compete (seriously) with MS in the desktop environment. Too many techies/programmers/geeks out there don't understand the business end of IT. Any linux distro that isn't a part of UnitedLinux will not only be competing with MS, but will watch their sales slip as corporations (who by the way need standards) choose UnitedLinux as their version.

Re:mandrake

[essdodson]

They simply go out there and offer their users EVERYTHING in the linux world.

This is exactly the reason I will never use Linux. Talk about WinXP's bloat all you want, check out the latest Linux distributions... very few Linux distributions are still available via a single CD install, quite a shame that the everything to everyone attitude is trashing things.