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

[Leon Brooks]

alan howard wrote:
> 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 )

No, it means a marketroid did not understand what the techs behind him were
doing. (-:

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