Mandrake or Fedora?

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

At 22:30 14/01/2004 -0500, mark wrote:
>CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>
>>At 23:18 13/01/2004 -0500, mark wrote:
>>
>>>I likewise had Mandrake,
>>
>>
>>For how long?
>>
>>>and wasn't that impressed.
>>
>>
>>What was unimpressive about it?
>>
>>>I switched to Mepis, which I like (the apt-get utility is amazing!).
>>>Like Fedora, Mepis is free.  I have not tried Fedora, but I hear good 
>>>things about it.
>>
>>
>>Mepis does indeed look mildly interesting but it is hardly a replacement 
>>for more established distros like Red Hat, Mandrake, or SuSE. I have 
>>downloaded and will take a look but I have to wonder why the world needs 
>>Mepis. I guess I will find out.
>Hmm, I'm actually sorry I said anything on this thread. . .the asinine 
>flag-waving patriotism that some feel toward certain linux distrubutions 
>is something I'd rather not take part in.  I tried a few (SuSE, Mandrake) 
>and currently settled on Mepis.  They're not significantly different.

How ironic that you should rudely characterize what I have written as 
"asinine flag-waving" and claim that you would rather not participate and 
participate. Can the invocation of Godwin's Law be far behind?

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
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