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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Well, it _is_ an alpha release, with the very first 2.6 kernel. Of course some things will not work as well as with stable releases, especially for hardware the lkml developers do not have.
The point is to show what will come, as well as shake as many bugs as possible before the actual release. Just try and send a bug report to qa.mandrakesoft.com.
You could probably still test the install: Mandrake usually puts more conservative kernels on the second CD, also bootable. Try it, you never know.