Linked by James Smyth on Tue 21st Oct 2003 17:51 UTC
MandrakeSoft has recently released the latest version of their desktop operating system. Mandrake Linux 9.2 Download Edition is available on their web site across three ISO files for the Club members. The first disk is about 650megs and the following two are ~700.
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I bought 9.1 and liked it for the urpmi tools for package installation. It was pretty easy to use, but lacked a lot of polish. The wizards (like ftp server wizard) were superficial and did practically nothing, for instance. I had high hopes for 9.2 because it was supposed to be such a big feature fix from 9.1. But 9.2 has turned out to be 9.1 with a handful of changes to the desktop. Most of the system configuration tools are worthless, the idea being that if there are many the system at least looks polished. Mandrake as a company has a great base distro but they just don't know how to make it really shine and make it really slick and great. Every time I've tried to send suggestions and bug reports their web form has just spit errors out. I used to be a big Mandrake supporter but I think they will never get their act together and will continue to hang on and never quite die. They'll continue diddling with the Gnome and KDE desktops and the installation software without really improving on the distro's feature set.