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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They numbered it 9.2 because there aren't big changes noticable to the user. If there were big changes it would be v10.
I've used Mandrake since 8.0, including beta testing 9.2. I switched to Gentoo last week and found a huge performance gain. One big difference for desktop users, though, is Mandrake's kernel is compiled with the preemptive patch. This keeps user responsiveness high. Gentoo's default is not (although I think their "game" kernel is). I think if Mandrake really wants to stand out they should move up from Pentium compilation to PIII. Their market share is so small why not differentiate by only supporting PIII and above, but with a nice performance gain?