Linked by Manish Bansal on Tue 6th Jan 2004 17:50 UTC
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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The review was a good preview for Mandrake10:) but there were some misunderstandings with OOo and KOffice:
* the Office-filters work very well already (at work, our big WORD-file would crash with MSOffice when updating the index but this worked under OOo!)
* the "ugly" grey square around the bullet point is actually an indication that this is a *field*, not normal text - this is infact very good because as a user you instantly know that this is a special field which you cannot directly edit because it was inserted by OOo.
Try page-preview-mode and you'll see the bullet points coming out nicely.
* OOo will be split up into individual components by 2.0 IIRC, so loading time should greatly improve then
* KOffice is an *entirely* different beast, more like Gobe Productive for BeOS - it's all about efficient and productive work with components that integrate nicely with each other - a great concept IMO, but it needs still some of OOo's features, so some code/information-exchange would surely be a good thing there, but of course *merging* these two separate worlds would be impossible, at least for quite some time.
* I am very keen on the BeOS-port, as an addition to the wonderful (but ATM outdated) Gobe Office-suite (comparable to KOffice regarding the concept)