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Jean-Baptiste Hétier wrote:
> Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> écrivait
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> Mattias Honrendgard wrote:
> | Lew Pitcher <Lew.Pitcher@td.com> wrote in message
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> |>Alan Connor wrote:
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> |>>On Tue, 11 May 2004 06:04:29 +0000 (UTC), Jean-Baptiste Hétier
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> |> <djib@radiopi.org> wrote:
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> |>>>Red hat, debian, mandrake ?
> |>>>Which is your favorite ?
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> If I had to choose from the OP's list, I'd go with Debian (then
> RedHat, then Mandrake).

> why would you put mandrake last ?

Primarily because I wouldn't put it first or second when given those
three choices.

Debian is a well-designed general distribution, with little or no 'fluff'.

RedHat is a well-marketed general distribution that many business and
personal users have settled on. It has a fair amount of 'fluff', but the
'fluff' doesn't intefere too much with its use.

Mandrake is a well-marketed home-user/clueless-newbie distribution that
many personal users have settled on. It has a great deal of 'fluff', and
(judging by the traffic in alt.os.linux.mandrake) that fluff is either
confusing to it's userbase, or inteferes with it's user base.

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Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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