[Cumbria] Red Hat shoots itself in foot?

Schwuk cumbria at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jan 30 23:49:02 2003


Michael Saunders wrote:
> Probably not very well at the moment, but desktop Linux is snowballing
> now with OpenOffice, Moz and KDE3/GNOME2. They're probably more
> interested in getting OEM deals with the likes of Dell.

Now that would be a good thing. And why can't one of the main laptop
makers produce a _decent_ model that has native support for Linux? I'm
close to throwing my Portege 4000 away in disgust due to various problems...

> On a similar note, what does everyone make of Mandrake's current
> financial woes? There's talk of community-ising the distro to turn it
> into a flashier Debian, and it has enough fans to make that viable
> IMO, but it'd be sad to see a high-profile distro company go down.

Depressing, but they will come through it in some form or another...
They have too much a community for it to die completely...
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Schwuk