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 have a test bed machine which is made up of 2 hardrives and 4 partitions. I am currently running SuSE9.0, Redhat9 and a hdinstall of Knoppix 11/19/03. All distros boot from floppy's and I thought I would give Mandrake a shot at this machine. Alas I downloaded and burned the 2 cd's and checked the md5 checksums so the media was fine. After 4 attempts at installation I had no success. The cd's would partially load then hang. Each time in a different spot. I conclude that this is a half baked attempt by Mandrake to scoop the field by being out with a version 10 and the new core before anyone else. If so it was short sighted at best. It will be a cold day in July before I use Mandrake again after the fiasco with 9.2 and this coaster maker.