Mandriva making its (little) move

[jro]

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/5900/1/

This is an interesting article with an interview with Ian Murdock (Debian creator), about how Mandrive will need to encorporate Debian technology into its core if it is to survive.

I for one would like to see Mandriva move to apt for its package management, mainly 'cause I never really liked RPMs. If they did go this route it would be interesting to see how they distinguished themselves from the others.

[Fatal Error]

And just what do YOU use jro?

Debian is the way to go, the community just may excede the total devs on all the other distros combined! That is a huge gang of smart people.

Some day soon even rootfoo will give up Slack for Deb! woot

[jro]

I am for Linux. Period. Any advancement of any distro is good for Linux IMHO.

What do I use right now? Windows XP, cause all my computers are in a box somewhere, and I have no internet connection at home. So I am relagated to surfing solely on my work laptop.

What I was getting as what that Mandriva (Mandrake) was always a Red Hat clone. I have never heard of a distro thinking about moving between technologies like this. I may be wrong, has anyone ever heard of this happening before?

[mcangeli]

Bah. Slackware will rule the world. You watch.

[jro]

Pfft. Slackware shmackware.