This is a rather unexpected, albeit very interesting marketing move. It will be interesting to see how well it plays out. I don't think Windows 7, in any incarnation, will be even remotely as affordable as the next version of OS X, due out in September.
Geez, when are people going to drop those nonsensical buzzwords? "Mandrake good for starters", because of its "graphical installer" mainly? I don't know where this cretinous obsession with the installer comes from; that is what makes transition easy or difficult for someone who hasn't used Linux before? Gimme an effin' break...
Secondly, I've been a Unix sysadmin since the eighties and still I like Mandrake very much (surprise, surprise) and I'm using it for some very serious stuff; why do I like it? because it allows me not to waste time with minor-but-nice-to-have things like colored output from ls, SSL for Webmin and such (things that are trivial to implement, but time consuming and really annoying to deal with in a production environment). Besides that - wow, XFS (I've always loved this file system), good-but-not-crazy optimization for your executables, a huge number of mdk-specific rpms (yes, that too saves time, you don't have to rebuild from tars, you don't have to try some exotic programs available only for Younameit, but not for your distro etc), very active development, with a pletora of cutting-edge programs and so on.
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This is a rather unexpected, albeit very interesting marketing move. It will be interesting to see how well it plays out. I don't think Windows 7, in any incarnation, will be even remotely as affordable as the next version of OS X, due out in September.
What about Occam's Razor? what would be the logical choice between ID and a now proven scientific hypothesis?
Even better (i.e. MUCH faster): Sumatra PDF http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
Geez, when are people going to drop those nonsensical buzzwords? "Mandrake good for starters", because of its "graphical installer" mainly? I don't know where this cretinous obsession with the installer comes from; that is what makes transition easy or difficult for someone who hasn't used Linux before? Gimme an effin' break... Secondly, I've been a Unix sysadmin since the eighties and still I like Mandrake very much (surprise, surprise) and I'm using it for some very serious stuff; why do I like it? because it allows me not to waste time with minor-but-nice-to-have things like colored output from ls, SSL for Webmin and such (things that are trivial to implement, but time consuming and really annoying to deal with in a production environment). Besides that - wow, XFS (I've always loved this file system), good-but-not-crazy optimization for your executables, a huge number of mdk-specific rpms (yes, that too saves time, you don't have to rebuild from tars, you don't have to try some exotic programs available only for Younameit, but not for your distro etc), very active development, with a pletora of cutting-edge programs and so on.