[techtalk] Re: Linux-Mandrake

[Scott]

At 07:09 PM 5/24/2001 +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
>8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
>an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
>found; every distro breaks things occasionally. What I *AM* ditching
>Mandrake for is replacing things like "vi" and "gcc" with stupid Perl
>scripts which attempt to colour in the output, and break things in the
>process!
>
>Nicer, I'll agree, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive them those stupid
>Perl wrappers round everything... When I run "gcc", I want to be running
>the GNU C Compiler, not some sort of colouring-in-script wrapped round it!

Don't you think Mandrake has done some wonder's for the desktop though?  While
I feel like I am outgrowing it right now and want the comfort of the 
command line
more than a wizard--there are benefits of setting things up the way they did.
Heck, friends who would never consider Linux have changed their minds after
using Mandrake.