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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Windows assigns volume letters at random .
I am not quite sure what you mean here. The above might happen in case you have many partitions and your MBR is not in a standard order. Other than that I don't know how can this happen.
With Windows 98/95, it's fairly easy to predict drive letters, but with XP & 2000 (and I believe NT, but I'm not sure), the user can arbitrarily choose his or her own drive letters.
This works nice for people who have a lot of drivespace and who want it organized in a particular manner (Such as keeping the same name for a particular drive after adding a new drive, which normally would possibly change the default drive/letter assignments), but it also will make it almost impossible to have Linux keep drive/letter pairings in sync.
Unless of course the drive/letter pairings are held in XML, or some other format which could be utilized by Linux for such an endeavor. I've never had a reason to research how such information's stored, but my 1st guess would be in the registry.