
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.
RedHatter, this is NOT a distro release. It is a pre-alpha of 10.0. As such, it will be buggy; it has installed for me, though, so maybe there is a specific issue with either your iso's or your hardware (there was a past bug in the installer which made it have problems if you had over a GB of RAM, for example).
Hopefully, KDE 3.2 will be mature enough for 10.0