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Interview with Mandrake Linux Founder Gael Duval

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the a-bit-of-the-biz dept.

mcleodnine writes "In this interview Gael Duval comments on MandrakeSoft's just released financials. He also comments on his decision to base Mandrake on Red Hat (over Slackware), the timeline for getting out of Chapter 11, the recent UserLinux manifesto and barriers to acceptance for Linux on the desktop."

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  1. Re:The problem with Mandrake is all the damn tweak by TrekCycling · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I agree totally. Having used Red Hat, then Mandrake, then SuSE, now Fedora I have the same take on Mandrake. I'd love to use it if it wasn't so flipping buggy. If they didn't push Cooker out the door with like 2 days testing I'd probably consider buying it since they do distribute ISOs, involve their users, etc. but I just can't see paying for something that requires a half GB of patches after the first couple weeks. And that's just the patches, doesn't take into account problems with Supermount, etc.