The Five Distros That Changed Linux

I was living in Auckland when the French Secret Service sank the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. Actually while she was tied up at the wharf.a Dutch Photographer, a member of the crew, was asleep in his bunk at the time, was drowned.

Im from Aberdeen, Scotland but live in Southern Vermont now and I really miss my chip suppers as we call them.

A supper is a term for just about any single food item (usually deep fried, just to make sure its dead) with a generous portion of chips with some classy condiments (salt & vinegar)

I usually had the red pudding supper which is delicious but sometimes treated myself to a macaroni pie supper or deep fried bananna supper, yummy, all washed down with a large bottle of Irn Bru.

Please consult a doctor before trying these delicacys dont blame me if your drop dead of clogged arteries and heart failure :) Only Scots can withstand this sort of biological abuse.

Then I must be a Scot, because my mother (confirmed Scot) enjoyed stopping at a local greasy spoon after school, to have exactly that (chips+salt&vinegar). In fact, she told me and my dad (another confirmed Scot) about it just this evening, when I brought up this thread.

Fries are best ate one way, with Lawry's Seasoned Salt. No ketchup, mustard mayo or any of that bullsniky.

Quoting:@Sander: Your "special" version sounds good. I don't eat beef so I'll pass on the hachee. I do make an awesome vegetarian cholent if anyone is interested.

Yes, very interested! My girlfriend is vegetarian too (not by choice, but on docter's orders) so I'm always on the lookout for nice vegetarian recipes. Please consider posting the recipe here, or PM it to me.

Quoting:Reminds me of how a 'Wiener' is called a Wiener all over the world except in Vienna, where it's called a Frankfurter.

Haha. That reminds me of Dutch names for types of beer glasses. There's a slightly larger glass that everyone calls an "Amsterdammer", except in Amsterdam where they are called "vaasje" (vase).

Quoting:A supper is a term for just about any single food item (usually deep fried, just to make sure its dead) with a generous portion of chips with some classy condiments (salt & vinegar)

I'm not keep on salt & vinegar on my hot chips or fries. But I love salt & vinegar flavoured potato chips from the supermaket. Sadly they don't sell them in the Netherlands so I either import them from France or I get them at a speciality British supermarket.

And I believe in the Netherlands you guys eat cake-sprinkles on sandwiches. I tried it, and it's just weird... or maybe our friends there were playing a trick on us.

We don't know cake-sprinkles, what the # is that? Something you put on cake and pies? Why would somebody do that?

Hagelslag on the other hand, yes, even in at least five different flavours and different shapes. My sister can't live without it, and freaked out when we were out of chocolate sprinkles in Athens. So on the last day of our holiday she went out to buy another 100gr for $3,5 (in our country it's 400gr for $1).

And the Brittish BTW don't care about mayonaise, ketchup or vinegar, they just use an old 'newspaper' instead. Tastes much better, and has a better 'educational' nutritional value.

Yeah, same stuff, except here it only goes on cakes/cupcakes etc, never on bread. :)

I still have some at home actually, now that I think of it.

Quoting:We don't know cake-sprinkles, what the # is that?

Yes we do. Stuff like "hagelslag", "vruchtenhagel" and "chocloade vlokken" that we put on bread, they put that on cakes instead.

...or on ice cream. They are also called "jimmies" in some parts of the States.

"Doesn't seem to matter what the context, but Mandrake/Mandriva hardly ever gets a mention in the American Linux magazines or blogs."

I have to totally agree. Mandrake should replace caldera in this list. I first used slackware then I bought mandrake at sams club and I was in heaven. It was the best distro ever and the first one that was easier to install than windows.

on another note is what I want to know is why have the book stores and sams club stop selling distros like mandrake? I remember you could buy a box set in the bookstores of mandrake and I wish those days were back.

But I guess the internet tubes killed that off and you could just download them today. Why do I always answer my own questions? I drive my wife nuts doing that. LOL.

I wasn't serious Sander... But not good at being sarcastic I see.

Anyway, I saw a friend of mine using Mandrake in 2003 or so, about when I started with Gentoo. He wasn't a geek or anything, but he found it as easy to use as WinXP in '03, so to me it seems Mandrake was the first distribution 'approachable for non-geeks'.

But when you only have five shots you have to choose. It would be easier if you said 'the 15 distro's that changed Linux' I guess.

@Koriel, we had to laugh one year when we went up to Scotland for a few days. We went into the chippy and asked for fish and chips. They pretended not to understand us until we asked for a fish supper!

That reminds me of a "restaurant" I went into in SW England. The menu consisted of I would estimate 80 item all of which said "and chips". I managed to evince an extremely dirty look from the waiter by being a smartarse and asking if they had anything without chips.

Sander: let me look up some online Jewish recipe sites and some which have the recipes for award winning cholent and I'll post some links. I'll add some notes about what I like to do :) Give me a day or two, OK?

As far a Mandriva goes, I tried the 2010 free edition about a fortnight ago, it was OK but nothing special, it certainly didnt make me want to change over from my PCLinuxOS on the desktop and Slackware on the server combo. I used to use Mandrake in its early days but from about version 9 onwards I feel they lost their way especially in the area of quality control and the only thing that was keeping me on Mandrake was Texstars patronage as soon as he decided to do his own distro (PCLinuxOS) it was just a question of time before I moved away from Mandrake.

As jdixon said, that later "Mandrake did break new ground" but I feel that period was fairly short lived, their are now a lot better distro's out there and that they are now just one of many.

As for not liking the French im all for them, but they can keep those d@mn snails, i'll stick with my red pudding suppers!

Edit:

A quick google turned up my fav delicacy here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pudding

Or the Macaroni pie supper http://mytabularassa.blogspot.com/2009/09/maccaroni-pie.html

Never mind the looks it all tastes great especially after 10 pints of Tennents, http://www.beerstore.com.au/beerstore/uploads/beerImages/Ten...

Mandriva's best release, IMHO, was 2008.1. I still use it on my main machine, but KDE4 is just about good enough to use as a main workhorse now and I'm actually using 2010 as much as 2008.1.

As far as I could make out when I had a play with it, PCLinuxOS _is_ Mandriva just with a different package manager.

All in all, I still think it [Mandriva] is a cracking distribution and the control centre is a real stand out feature. I've had a play with a couple of other distributions like Debian, but always come back to Mandriva. Hurrah for the choice you get with Linux. :~)

@Caitlyn: That would be great, thanks.

@Koriel: The description of that "red pudding" vaguely reminds me of what the Dutch call a "viandel".

I call TOS.

My God! We are deep in a discussion of Dutch and Scot food.

What next?

French baseball?

The horror.

I agree dino. I call TOS too. *Some* people in here are trying to derail a perfectly good thread on food by interspersing comments on Mandriva.

;-)