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   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: liam@NOSPAM.liamslider.com   
      
   On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:51:06 +0000, Lloyd Parsons wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I have some experience with Linux, mostly from old distos going back to   
   > the Slackware and creative labs cd days.  But the last distro that I   
   > loaded on my pc was Mandrake 9.   
      
   Geeze, I *used* to run Mandrake 9. Before I ran SuSE 8.2 for the longest   
   time... Mandrake 9 was...well, a little broken in areas. To be expected   
   really on a .0 release I've found. Hardware detection was nice though. But   
   still, Mandrake 9 is seriously outdated to complain about. There have been   
   some *major* improvements since then.   
      
   > I will admit that it was a nice   
   > improvement over the years, but still not up to OSX in many ways. Mostly   
   > ease of use and availability of commercial software.   
      
   That's changed now, for the most part.  More commercial software avaliable   
   if you actually look for it. And ease of use has gone up dramatically.   
      
   >   
   > I don't think that Linux will ever snag many mac users simply because it   
   > isn't as good on the mac as OSX is.   
      
   I disagree.   
      
   >  Nor do I think that current   
   > distros on pc are nearly as good as OSX for most things.   
      
   You don't *know* current distros, last you knew was Mandrake 9. A whole   
   *version* ago. I may as well be complaining about Mac OS 9, and saying   
   that the Mac isn't ready.   
      
      
   >   
   > Pure conjecture and opinion of course.....   
      
      
   Lots of conjecture....   
      
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