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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by Sjaddow on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @22:55

I second that. Mandrake is the way to go. RedHat/Fedora is too focused on Gnome, which in my opinion falls short on the desktop. SUSE have choosen KDE, but are too focused on enterprise, which is hurting their desktop profile. Mandrake on the other hand has always had a strong desktop profile, and has been the best choice for desktop Linux for years.

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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by Ingo Klöcker on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @01:05

And Mandrake has a sad history of breaking KMail by backporting unfinished features from the development version to the stable version (on-the-fly spellchecking was backported and we received crash reports, the anti-spam wizard was backported and we received crash reports). And then Mandrake thought it would be a cool idea to use ~/.Mail instead of ~/Mail for storing the mail. Well, there's nothing wrong with that if it's done right. But guess what, we have received multiple bug reports about this because apparently Mandrake didn't manage to do it right.

The result of this is that I don't trust any bug reports coming from Mandrake users until they have been confirmed by non-Mandrake users. I'm sorry about that, but I really don't have the time to investigate whether such a bug is Mandrake-only or not.

I can't remember any other distribution causing us, the KMail developers, comparably much pain.

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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by Carlos Woelz on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @08:24

On the other hand, they put a lot of effort into integrating Kolab. I believe Mandrake mistakes are past.

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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by Juanjo on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @15:02

>I can't remember any other distribution causing us, the KMail developers, >comparably much pain.

It's probably also because Mandrake is the most downloaded distribution and so probably the most used on desktops, almost doubling the next non-live distribution (Fedora):

http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity

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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by John SUSE Freak on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @08:35

In fact all I see as a result of that is better and simpler support for some tasks in suse. That includes instalation of Software (nvidias drivers for instance, check the specific SUSE instructions on their site), profile management, etc.

What exactly were you thinking about? How do you think it hurting their desktop profile? Could you give examples?

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Re: Distribution in Europe...
by Juanjo on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @15:06

Mandrake (powerpack, which is the distribution that would surely go in a laptop) also have nvidia drivers and install them by default if your computer needs them (so no instructions are needed.) It also have profile management on drakconf (and I use it a lot.)

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