[PLUG] Rat off a Sinking Ship?

[alan]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, guy1656 wrote:

> I am running Mandrake 8.1
> 
> Now that they are filing for bankruptcy, what's the simplest way to migrate
> to something 'still viable?'

Mandrake is "not dead yet".  (Just resting?)

The chapter 11-like proceedings are supposedly to get out of a bunch of 
bad contracts they got involved with during the dot-com days.  (Though 
there may be more to this than is being let on here. I will have to ask 
some of the ex-Mandrake people.)

I would see how 9.1 looks before jumping ship.  If it does not show up by 
July, then you might want to look into it a bit more seriously.

Redhat 8.1 is starting to look very nice.  It uses the latest version of 
XFree86 and a bunch of bleeding edge stuff.  Some of it is very cool.  
(The beta has problems with dual processor machines though. Fixed in the 
Rawhide version.)

SuSE's installer does some things that make me wary of it.  Need to install 
it when i have a disk that can be totally reformatted.