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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Solutions to some review problems
by Anonymous on Tue 6th Jan 2004 22:04 UTC

The difference between 'closed' and 'stealth' is whether the PC drops packets without replying, or replies that the port is closed. ICMP is often also dropped in the latter case; it's the family of protocols that has tools such as 'ping' in it. In general, 'closed' is actually better than stealth; your computer is marginally easier to find, but as long as all your ports are closed, it shouldn't be an issue. If you block ICMP, some stuff will break, most obviously ping. scan.sygate.com really overstates the difference to security. It also seems to now be hawking privacy/security programs; I'm sure they're well-intentioned, but it begins to remind me of grc.com - a site with some mildly useful things, but which is also full of meaningless->harmful hype.
Not listening on port 6000 is good. Edit your startx file to have the option -nolisten tcp when it calls xinit, and this will stop being a problem.
As mentioned above, prelinking is just a matter of prelink -afmR.
For dependancies, I hear mandrake/fedora are improving; my personal preference would still be to use gentoo, bsd, or debian.