Why Mandrake is Too Cool for UnitedLinux

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 3, 2002 @02:14AM from the no-surprise-here dept.

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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Re:One OS by march · 2002-07-03 02:28 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Becareful when you mix Church and State!! There was a recent ruling about this!! :-)
it's all about the benjamins by 1000101 · 2002-07-03 03:56 · Score: 1, Flamebait

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.