[thelist] Mandrake 9.2 or Redhat 9.0

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Thursday 2003 October 16 10:18, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > Unless you have a compelling need, avoid Red Hat. You'll hear Red
> > Hat's distribution referred to semi-humorously as "deadrat", and
> > for good reason.
>
> "good reason" being _______________________?

Severe bloat, almost as bad as Windows. Butchering of packages like KDE 
and XMMS. (The latter pops up a dialog box when playing an MPEG audio 
file, stating the functionality has been removed due to some licensing 
problem. Easily fixed by upgrading to the RPM from the XMMS site, but 
IMO this shouldn't be necessary.) Less of a committment to the free 
software community (meaning they include a lot of non-free packages).

Really, Debian or Gentoo would be a better choice than either of the two 
distributions in the original post.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn