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["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Wright <Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

    Ian> I've just rebuilt a machine on which I've put Mandrake 7.2 -
    Ian> all very appealing to the kids now!! I wouldn't recommend it
    Ian> to any of our Debian stalwarts as it will probably give them
    Ian> apoplexy but its certainly going the right way to steal Mr
    Ian> Gates' thunder!

Yup.  Embrace and extend, just like the Master in Redmond.  Hope
you've got a service contract with the vendor, because all of the open
source developers I know are refusing to support Mandrake ;-)

Much worse than Red Hat.  It's pretty, but expect many of your queries
to the net to bomb out on "known bug in Mandrake due to a Mandrake
patch; not our problem."

Not to mention more arrogant than Debian.  "We must hack your code to
support out user interface guidelines."

(Can you tell I just spent three hours answering Mandrake FAQs on
comp.emacs.xemacs?  But do I get stock options from them?  I do not.)

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