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 drive letters in the order that they are created/detected. Normally, this is in order - as when you are partitioning a fresh hard drive it creates each partition sequentially. If you are to do any repartitioning, iirc, in win2k the original partition is removed, subsequently lettered partitions are lettered down, and new partitions are given new letters. In XP lettering is static to the installation and doesn't adjust to repartitioning (but don't quote me on any of that, I'm just pretty sure, but I haven't checked it recently). All that's by default though - you can change any of it. Doesn't make much difference though, not even windows adopts the lettering of another windows installation - it just reads them in in order:P
Really a screwy setup though. Linux (and just about every other os I've tried for that matter) has a much more informative and static way of handling drives imho - even if it's not so user friendly at it's core, hda1 is always hda1 (not to mention all the other bits of information you can draw from hda1 that you cant from C:)