On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, D.I. Redhouse wrote:
Didn't it go through a period of being quite badly behind most of the other distributions?
More like other distros try and race each other into having the most unstable software with the biggest version number in! One of the gimp-print developers told me about how Mandrake keep using the unstable beta version of their software in release versions of Mandrake. This is all fine and lovely until people start emailing the gimp-print mailing list telling them how crap their software is when it is Mandrakes fault.
Although equally it could be something to do with the fact that a Debian user round these parts once described/denounced RedHat as the Windows 95 of Linux distributions, and I developed a general theory concerning Debian users.
Yeah, Redhat is alright but whenever they release a new version it is usually followed by loads of patches to get bits of it working that should of when it shipped. Debian appears to have far much more quality control IMHO, I also like Slackware but that appeared to be almost unmaintained when I made the switch to Debian, I could of gone to FreeBSD but couldn't really be bothered as I already knew more about linux.
I am still sore with Mandrake after they shipped an entire distro (which I bought at full retail price) with broken init scripts when I was a newbie, I paid for Mandrake as it was supposed to be easy to use/learn.
Adam