United Linux: why MandrakeSoft will not join

[Lee]

Not defending M$, only a point of view. First Win 95, 98. ME are
basically the same distro, from the same company released about every
2-3yrs. Something like Mandrake 7.2, 8.0. 8.1,8.2 ect. What runs on Win
95 generally runs on Win 98 and even ME. The Nt based distros (nt4,
2000, XP) are similar but not identical as hardware and software
developers are a little more reluctant to make drivers for the different
Windows NT distros, so M$ has to do a little work on its own and write
drivers, many of which don't work. But that doesn't change the fact that
Windows, with all its bugs and crap. is basically unsplintered. It is
also rigid and incapable of doing anything Bill Gates didn't design into
it. It can not be modified in the field. This quest for unsplintering is
not something that Linux should strive for. If you don't like Mandrake
8.0 load 8.1, 8.2 or SuSE 7.2 or 8.0, or RH 7.1, 7.2 ect. There is
always an option. If there is an option on one distro that you want to
run in a different distro it is not impossible to lift it and recompile.
That's something you can't do with Windows. As for the all perfect
United distro (even it's not marked on the desktop box) Windows provides
an excellent example of what can happen. XP was their new bigger'
better, with larger chrome strips release and it's fallen on it's face.
Not because it's crap (the average Windows user wouldn't know that) but
because the consumer has decided that it is not necessary. "My Win 95 OS
does everything I want it to do and I have all the bugs worked out of it
Why do I need to spend $200 for XP?" Do you really think the same thing
can't happen with UnitedLinux?

Lee 




box wrote:
> 
> Lee wrote:
> 
> >Then there is this great bug-a-boo of splintering. So what? That's what
> >Linux is all about. The only unsplintered OS around is M$.
> >
> And just how unsplintered is a company that offers
> 
>     DOS
>     Windows 95
>     Windows 98
>     Windows 98SE
>     Windows ME
>     Windows NT
>     Windows 2000
>     Windows XP
> 
> in various versions of each?
> 
> At least the core of Linux is still the Linus kernel. <g>
> 
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