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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As a Debian user, I can say that urpmi is very good and second to apt mostly because of the number of packages that Debian has available by default. If you do a google search, you'll find a lot of urpmi repositories.
I have not had urpmi break a package or fail to resolve a dependency (I was able to convince my boss to allow me to use Mandrake at work because it can be officially supported...funny, since I am the network admin and support my own box, but hey - it allowed me to have a *nix workstation at work).
Mandrake is a really good desktop distribution (and you can still use the power under the hood, no matter what the naysayers will tell you) which got a bit buggy with the downloadable release of 9.2. However, I haven't had any problems to speak of with my Powerpack (purchased version), so perhaps they did a bit more work on it; can't say as I blame them for focusing a bit more on the product that people actually pay for.