Star Review: Mandrake Linux 9.2
Linked by James Smyth on Tue 21st Oct 2003 17:51 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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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Media player front ends GUI's
by Anonymous on Tue 21st Oct 2003 18:55 UTC

I hope MPlayer and Xine are taking notes. SuSe switched to Kaffeine as the default media player front end and now Mandrake switched to Totem for the default Xine front end. It seems obvious to everybody but the Xine and MPlayer project teams that the DVD player style of graphical user interfaces are garbage. If they don't change their default front ends, people will only know their work by Kplayer, Totem, Kaffeine, or some such. Relegating all their hard work to some obscure back end library project.So as Linux Distro's become mainstream the Xine and Mplayer names fade away because their default front ends suck. At least offer a choice of the two basic styles.