Mandrake or Slackware

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:04:06PM -0700, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
>
>Folks,
>
>If you had to choose, with only a couple hours to decide, between Slackware
>and Mandrake for a laptop install, which would you choose?  I don't know
>either of them well enough to make a logical decision, but I'm in the
>position of needing to make that decision.

As somebody else said, I would choose SuSE.

When I was looking for a replacement last year for the Caldera systems
we've been using since 1995 or so, I looked seriously at Mandrake.  I
didn't like the looks of their finances at the time (why go from one
bankrupt distro to another :-), and the best comment I saw was sombody who
said ``Don't worry. the French government will take over if Mandrake
fails''.  The last thing I want to do is deal with a bureaucracy that's
probably worse even than the one that runs this country.

Bill
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