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   From: NoWay@NoWhere.com   
      
   Liam Slider 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 still, Mandrake 9 is seriously outdated to complain about.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.   
      
   Major is an understatement. Every major release of Linux sees leaps and   
   bounds in usability, content, installation improvements, hardware   
   supported, maintenance chores.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Well, I'll say that much of the free software isn't quite as nice as the   
   commercial stuff available, but it's close enough that I'd never bother to   
   buy a commercial application.   
      
      
   >> 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.   
      
   I actually think it might snag some Mac users to buy/build much cheaper x86   
   machines and run Linux instead.   
      
   >>  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.   
      
   Very good point...   
      
      
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