Re:Mandrake Shakeup - this is a good thing!
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If I understand your message well enough, you say that Henri Poole was as good a manager than Henri Paul was a driver for the late Lady Di and her boyfriend before their fatal crash in Paris, France.
And I may add, that neither was Henri Paul the true master of his own movements (he was drunk, for the least), nor Henri Poole the author of his own decisions. You say 'political' and I understand that democracy is something... very complex ! (Or isn't it ?)
Antoine Hugueney
I agree that Linux Mandrake is relatively easy to use, and has a beautiful GUI. But let's not forget that Linux primary quality be dependability, not aesthetics. Mandrake is not a dependable Linux distribution, it is just fair, just a little bit above my Windows 95 OSR 2. In the Mandrake installation I am using right now to write you from, klauncher (the launcher and task bar) has disappeared and won't reapper. Netscape navigator 6.01 has strange looking lilliputian fonts (so that I use Opera or Konqueror, or put the Zoom at 200%). Some scientific software won't work correctly (LastWave for signal processing with wavelets), and a servlet container such as JRun won't get connected to Apache (at least not that easily, even though I recompiled). It is both because it is not standard enough (no more than about 90% compatible with Red Hat, not 99%) and because it is not reliable enough.
And for the speed, I mean, we can also recompile Red Hat for Pentium / Pentium Pro / Pentium II or whatever.
Lastly, a short time ago, Mandrake decided to do some cross-advertising with a french cartoon which was half-nude. Is this any right way to treat customers ? I definitely don't have the brain of Linus T., but I don't appreciate its persistent obsession with sex. Linux is now in the industrial arena, with major players such as IBM. We don't need the Scandinavian libertinian folklore that is still attached to it (nor do we need R. Stallman communist propaganda, for all the good I think of its Emacs software and the MIT which formed him back in the 60's).
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If I understand your message well enough, you say that Henri Poole was as good a manager than Henri Paul was a driver for the late Lady Di and her boyfriend before their fatal crash in Paris, France. And I may add, that neither was Henri Paul the true master of his own movements (he was drunk, for the least), nor Henri Poole the author of his own decisions. You say 'political' and I understand that democracy is something ... very complex ! (Or isn't it ?)
Antoine Hugueney
I agree that Linux Mandrake is relatively easy to use, and has a beautiful GUI. But let's not forget that Linux primary quality be dependability, not aesthetics. Mandrake is not a dependable Linux distribution, it is just fair, just a little bit above my Windows 95 OSR 2. In the Mandrake installation I am using right now to write you from, klauncher (the launcher and task bar) has disappeared and won't reapper. Netscape navigator 6.01 has strange looking lilliputian fonts (so that I use Opera or Konqueror, or put the Zoom at 200%). Some scientific software won't work correctly (LastWave for signal processing with wavelets), and a servlet container such as JRun won't get connected to Apache (at least not that easily, even though I recompiled). It is both because it is not standard enough (no more than about 90% compatible with Red Hat, not 99%) and because it is not reliable enough. And for the speed, I mean, we can also recompile Red Hat for Pentium / Pentium Pro / Pentium II or whatever. Lastly, a short time ago, Mandrake decided to do some cross-advertising with a french cartoon which was half-nude. Is this any right way to treat customers ? I definitely don't have the brain of Linus T., but I don't appreciate its persistent obsession with sex. Linux is now in the industrial arena, with major players such as IBM. We don't need the Scandinavian libertinian folklore that is still attached to it (nor do we need R. Stallman communist propaganda, for all the good I think of its Emacs software and the MIT which formed him back in the 60's).