> >The future of Mandrake? Hear that ticking sound? That's
> >their clock running out ... the text makes it clear they have
> >to have the same flood of "Club" members year-round to
> >stay afloat ... not a chance!
> That explanation is a lengthened version of an email Jacques LeMarois
> (Mandrakesoft CEO) wrote to me after he read this article:
> http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/04/03/1450240&mode=nested
> - Robin
I won't claim to be a techno-prophet nor a market-guru! :-)
I did look at your article wherein you wrote ...
"ELX, Lycoris, Xandros, and others are all advancing rapidly."
Visited the ELX site, yuck. Slow as molasses and missing essential
information. The dolphin should at least have a penguin astride! Not
ready for prime time, IMHO.
Lycoris was a good deal more professional looking and appeared to
be a more mature product.
Xandros, modified and app-less Corel, is encouragingly Debian but
otherwise semi-vaporware in a crowded marketplace given the lack
of anything approaching a commitment to a delivery date. The Web
site is a bit too techno-geeky, the generic user would be turned off.
Slackware is more geek oriented and nowhere obvious lists minimum
hardware requirements.
SuSE reads like a mature consumer product. Let's see what happens
after mid-April!
I am not a RedHat fan.
I am guessing that SuSE is the odds-on favorite to snag some serious
desktop numbers. Shame it is a European rather than a US company.
EU is a mess.
IMHO, YMMV ... doc
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