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 must have some magical ability to make Mandrake puke, because no matter what mahine I run it on, it always crashes badly, and often. I should add that no other Linux distribution, BSD or even Windows has ever given me anywhere near as much trouble. I hate Mandrake.
People talk about how wonderful Mandrake is, and I wonder if they're on crack and thinking about something completely different. In my experience, this distribution is nothing short of being monumentally bad, and I'll not recomend it to anyone who's hobbies do not include fixing broken things.