[plug] Re: Illiteracy on the list. Illisteracy? *PLUS* Mandrake, DebIan

[alan howard]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 
> Mandrake 5.0 was based on RedHat 5.0. All subsequent Mandrake distributions have
> descended from that. Re-engineering a RedHat distribution was done *once* at the
> very beginning, and never since. I can just about imagine how you phrased the
> question, and the "snooty" response would be because ever since day release 5.1,
> about three years ago, Mandrake has not been based on any redHat distribution.
> 

I have a box set for mandrake 6.0 from Macmillan publishing which states
" Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Redhat linux 6.0 with enhancements)"
does this not mean the same as being "based on".
(I'm currenly using mandrake 7.0 )

regards 
Alan Howard