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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I'm sorry to say but your review has newbie written all over it, and most of your points are moot.
> I wonder how would it be when pre-linking is enabled.
try it out
prelink -afmR should do it.
>I know its not a good idea to display 'root' as one of the users, atleast a text field should have been supplied where I could type username 'root'.
you shouldn't run as root, especially not a gui, and there shouldn't have been a text field.
you should try su or kdesu to start an app as root and do what you want, but NEVER login kde with root.
> And I also wonder if it is so tough to put every object file needed in the same rpm package.
because it wastes bandwith, and is simply unneeded. if a package you got from a shady rpm site overwrites a library tested and compiled by mandrake. you have the equivalent of dll hell in windows. I very much prefer dependency hell, resolved by a good package manager.
> Personally, I think these guys should merge with OO.org.
NOT gonna happen, though there will be some cooperation with a kde gui for openoffice and the like
> GNOME dictionary turned out to be very helpful in checking some word meanings but it needs internet connection
Off course it does, it looks up your word LIVE on MULTIPLE online dictionaries.
> Flash plugin is not present and neither is Java. What is the point in putting ton of new features in each version if it can't do the basic stuff right?
You should complain with macromedia (flash) and sun (java) for distributing under a license, that allows neither redhat mandrake microsoft or anyone to include their stuff.
> I felt better but now I could not access my shared drives mounted under /mnt. Oh well..
Haven't used mdk for a while, but IIRC the security settings when set to paranoid uncovered a tab where you could unset different settings like mounting stuff, or automatically resetting permissions on some files. (did you even look around to see if you could fix it? The solution was pretty much under your nose)
> Another example is .dat files.
.dat files can be pretty much anything .
http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=DAT
a data text-file is the most likely, and a video file is only on the 5th or so position
You sound very much like what you say: someone who's tried and installed everydistro, but hasn't used any for over 5 minutes because something didn't work the way they're used to.
Maybe you should start with a boxed set and a manual. (which DO include browser plugins IIRC)