Comment Re:funny... (Score 1) 365
You're adding up CD's but you're not adding up the amount of packages Mandrake installs for you. The biggest problem I have is the number of duplicated packages installed...they should pick 1 or 2 well known packages for a given tool and use those, if you want more, you should have to download an extra's CD or get them off the net.
Another thing Mandrake does is install some pretty useless libraries. The last one that I remember seeing is ClanLib - what the heck is that!? (It's a library for some kind of game development, I know...they should at least use Allegro, sheesh!) How many Linux users actually use this package? I'm willing to bet a select few.
So what I get from this is... Mandrake needs to appeal to a large audience, but to do that, they need to appeal to every person, and to do that, they need to install all these trivial packages that only a select group (or single person) use.
I'll be sticking with RedHat but it seems like for beefy Linux distro's to get smaller, there may need to be some better package selections happening behind the scenes.
Another thing Mandrake does is install some pretty useless libraries. The last one that I remember seeing is ClanLib - what the heck is that!? (It's a library for some kind of game development, I know...they should at least use Allegro, sheesh!) How many Linux users actually use this package? I'm willing to bet a select few.
So what I get from this is... Mandrake needs to appeal to a large audience, but to do that, they need to appeal to every person, and to do that, they need to install all these trivial packages that only a select group (or single person) use.
I'll be sticking with RedHat but it seems like for beefy Linux distro's to get smaller, there may need to be some better package selections happening behind the scenes.
