[Discuss] OS Switch (was Google hasn't saved my Amarok)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-08-26 12:37-0700 Michael wrote:

> If I do get to the bottom of this (Mandrake) issue I will post something here,
> otherwise I will be forced to find an alternative music player to use
> until I do my big OS switch later this year.

I'll bite.  What OS are you switching to?

I don't have any experience with Mandrake, but from the update troubles with
Mandrake that people mention here including your own, I doubt it is really
representative of the package reliability of other Linux distros.

So I hope you are not abandoning Linux altogether with your "OS switch", and
instead you are going to move to a more reliably packaged distro.  I have
had good package reliability experience with Debian and (to a slightly
lesser extent) with the Debian derivative Ubuntu, but I am sure there are
non-Mandrake rpm-based distros that have reliable packaging as well.

Alan
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