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've been gving MDK 9.2 a try for a few weeks and I'm rather impressed (surprised?). I won't disagree with the points you raise, except...
1) There's nothing wrong with a review from a newbie point of view. Reviews that assume the reader's expertise are, by definition, only useful to experts. Linux is an OS, not a teaching tool.
2) Many of the points you raise, as well as a lot of confusion surrounding Linux, would be moot if distributions would include adequate documentation. E.g., if Gnome wants to checks online dictionaries, tell the user. (No, putting it in a help file isn't as good as putting it in a hard-copy manual.) Sure, lots of "documentation" is on the net, but referring your paying customers to the web instaed of paying someone to write decent documentation is just a copout. The web is full of nonsense. (I bought Mandrake's PowerPack box, and I'm dismayed by the lack of decent detailed documentation. The hardcopy manual included in the box is a glorified install manual (altho well done), and the "reference manual" that us installed hardly seems Mandrake specific.)