Subj : Re: Mandrake vs Suse To : comp.os.linux From : skipcope Date : Tue Aug 24 2004 08:17 pm Matt wrote in message news:... > IME most of Europe will claim you're the arrogant ones ;). And you've just > said the French are arrogant. > So you hate Europe? Europeans? France and Germany? > How is the UK doing, since we bomb innocent people in a quest for oil too? > Most of Europe must have a very distorted view of we Americans. We're not proud and arrogant, like many claim we are. It seems others in the world are arrogant though for judging us so harshly. We are proud only in the sense we dearly love and respect our country. Terrorists who attack us are enemies and thats only by their choice. We have chosen to defend our land against such attacks even if we have to take the war elsewhere to prevent future hostility. Attacking countries for their oil is the last thing on our minds, of that I can assure you. We just want to live our lives in peace. We're also the biggest charitable contributor to third-world countries. I pay very high taxes and many of my dollars are sent overseas to support countries who have much less. How can the world think we're arrogant and only want to take other peoples oil? What pure rubbish! Its a lie! > At least give a reason you don't like Suse or Mandrake other then > politics. The question and answer should be technical, let the end user > (i.e. OP) decide his/her own politics, as these need not be a factor in > making a decision on what to buy until the last stage, if at all. > As for reasons, I've tried every major distro their is, starting back 4 or 5 years ago. I've even given the now defunct Corel Linux a good test run. I've also fully tested and tried out Suse and Mandrake. RedHat is simply much more stable, well documented and more well supported than anything else out there. Major corporations in the US would never trust their OS to some company based over in Germany or France. Sorry, but with the time difference and language barriers being what they are, they'd never make such a move. Neither would I. I'd much rather have someone who can speak fluent English on the other end of the telephone, which by the way RedHat's phone support is better than Suse or Mandrake by far. Like I said, I've test driven them all (for miles and miles). RedHat's simply better, not to mention it's made in the good ole USA :-). Cheers, Skip .