Mandrake 8 arrived at Best Buy in Clearwater today, Norb.
Smitty
patrick wrote:
>
> On Monday 21 May 2001 10:26 pm, you wrote:
> > Bpreece wrote:
> > > Mandrake was just advertised in the sunday best buy flyer
> > > I do hope we stop loosing these distros
>
> its their source of income. somebody must have screwed up
> big time for them not to be in the stores if they announced they
> would be
> >
> > Note, however, that this doesn't mean this distro is gone. Remember when
> > SuSE had to scale back a big portion of their US offices? They're still
> > the leading European Distro, but just scaled back in the US. Maybe they
> > just grew too big too fast and need to scale it down a bit.
>
> at the time that suse scaled i believe they held the biggest percentage
> of sales in the u.s. remember they were the first to have kernal 2.4.
> i never believed they scaled back in the u s because they had to.
> i have always kinda thought they wanted to.
>
> >
> > Which brings me to an interesting observation; it seems to me like the
> > trend is starting to be that countries have an almost "national flavor"
> > of GNU/Linux - save for the US (almost). I mean, think about it -
> > France/Mandrake, Germany/SuSE, Brazil/Connectiva, US/RedHat-Debian
> > (mostly), Canada/???Corel??? (I think OpenBSD has a bigger share there,
> > or maybe it's just their most famous/notorious export) - and some seem
> > to find their homes away from home, like Japan/TurboLinux. Has anyone
> > else noticed this or is it just me? Could this become a major trend? Is
> > it already such? I mean, it's a bit of a generalization that I just
> > made, but you get the drift, right? Of course, there are those Distros
> > which are completely transnational - Debian for example (Kondra TRIES to
> > be), as well as the nano-distros, like LRP. Any thoughts on this?
>
> i do believe this. if the distros are located out the of the u.s. then
> the u.s. government cant control them. i actually beleive that
> microsoft is behind the scenes trying to convince the government
> that the u s cant have much of an economy without microsoft. and
> also not so behind the scenes.
>
> and also i believe that Mandrake just started this classes thing
> on the internet a little while ago. if they were in trouble i dont
> believe they would have done this. its an expense.
>
> the only thing i'm wondering about is why they dont have their
> mandrake 8 in the stores when they said they would. something
> is wierd.
> >
> >
> > Norb
> >
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