Star Mandrake Linux 10 Preview
Linked by Manish Bansal on Tue 6th Jan 2004 17:50 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Mandrake Linux 10.0-preview edition pretty much defines the shape of things to come in Linux land in 2004. With Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 beta and XFree86 4.4 beta, it doesn't leave much to be desired. This article refers to cooker snapshot as of December 31, 2003. Please note that this release is not a beta release. This is not even an alpha release. Its just something put together to show what we can expect from Mandrake 10.0. This release comes on only two CDs so some of the packages are missing. And as there are bound to be lot of bugs in this kind of release, I'll be concentrating more on the usability aspect. So let's see if it is worth drooling over.
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Unless something drastically changes before the next release, its unlikely you'll ever find things like Flash or Java packaged into the download edition or cooker tree of Mandrake. It has to do with their licensing structures. However you can find them in PowerPacks or in MandrakeClub subscriptions. On the other hand, it's not likely you'll ever find anything like libdvddcss outside of http://plf.zarb.org

As far as dependency hell is concerned, I hardly ever use RpmDrake command line urpmi is where it's at, just like apt-get. If you simply added cooker sources from the get go you would have had no problem. There are plf trees for cooker as well, and plf offers a nice pretty little wizard to add soruces: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/

Traditionally there is a screen in the install that serves as an opt-in feature for Autologin, if you didn't want it to auto login then perhaps you should have checked that. Had you not selected autologin its likeyl mdkkdm wouldn't have been installed. And what exactly did you need to do as root on the first boot that "su -" couldn't do?

I'm glad you like MDK 10, but I think some reviewers are spread too thing trying everything that they don't spend enough time reading everything and just start clicking through everything and then expect everything to work.