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Re: [TCLUG:21372] Mandrake sucks.



According to the X Files Mandrake is the name of some kind of drug used in
abortions (or something similar).  Figures.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> Alright, I've been on a quest to run every distribution. I've tried a
> few, Slakware, RedHat, Debian, they all have their ups and downs, but
> never before have I touched a distribution that downright sucked. I
> can't get anything to compile right on it, xmms wants libintl but it
> doesn't seem to be there. There's no libXxf86vm or libXxf86dga even
> though the headers are there, though I do admit these are beta XFree
> 4.0.1 packages. And above all, they seem to have just plum forgotten the
> C++ header files across two release versions. Sure, the compiler is
> there. The library is there. But its kinda useless without the headers.
> 
> Screw it, my workstation's going to debian. (please, no applause. ;)
> 
> Mandrake sucks, spread the word.
> 
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