Re: Please don't step on others' toes... (was: Mandrake is a clunky piece of sh!t, and an embarrassment to the Open Source/Free Software communites)

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> I can only suggest then that, to pull one example of many out of a hat, you
> never attempted to install any software using the ridiculous 'urpmi'
> system, that, nine times out of ten, spends forever downloading only to
> fail due to some dependency issue. Funny how certain distributions which
> don't even bother with dependencies seem to be so much more reliable in
> this regard.

  Odd. I never have urpmi fail, and that is one reason I give it glowing 
reviews. :-) Although, I would note that MDK 9.0 got far from a glowing 
review on OfB.biz... 9.1 will get... you'll just have to wait and see. :-)

  What are you doing with urpmi? Are you installing from some odd source or 
something? I use main, contrib, cooker_main, texstar, plf, etc.

> Not that I'm criticising Tim for writing glowing reviews of something that
> works for him, especially since I don't pay to read Ofb.biz. Linux Format,

  Thanks, Dan. :-)

>
> Well, a lot of people worked hard to produce Microsoft Windows, and yet it
> is perfectly acceptable to point out that it is a badly written, buggy
> piece of junk that has, without a doubt, kept innovation in the IT industry
[...]
> perhaps you'd like to redirect my criticism at Mandrake the company rather
> than Mandrake the group of dedicated individuals working together for the
> good of the universe. This is, in fact, exactly what was intended.

  Well, MDK -- the company -- wouldn't be begging so much if it wasn't for the 
world class management team that wrecked it two years ago. Hopefully they 
will be fully back on their feet soon. In the mean time, MDKClub is getting 
to be a valuable tool -- special mirrors, RPM database, etc.

  -Tim

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