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 agree with you. The review looks like it has been written by a newbie.
The Windows naming scheme (like C:, D:) is going to be deprecated in the future, so why should Mandrake hang on to this ? Mandrake 9.2 and Cooker both mount my Windows partitions under /mnt/, what's wrong with that ?
> When I booted for the first time, the system automatically > logged me in as 'manish'.
Yes, because you chose to do so! You could have turned that off in the installer. Please read carefully when you install. The installer is very user friendly, I can't really see why you missed it.
Also, it is quite easy to change this behaviour. Just start the GDM configurator.
> There are lot of programs installed to deal with image >files. Infact, there are too many of them
Just uninstall them, what's the big deal ?
> Flash plugin is not present and neither is Java
Go to macromedia.com and java.sun.com.
> That means that someone could still see that there is a PC > at this IP address
Yes, so what ? Your firewall will reject the packets (since the ports are closed) and people cannot hack into your PC. It is not necessary to use "stealth" mode. It seems to me, that you should read about firewall tecniques. Try searching for "iptables howto" in google. It will teach how a firewall works, what is necessary to block etc.