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 10.00 cooker running on my desktop and feel very happy using it for day to day tasks. Much improved KDE and overall responsiveness is very good. It didn't install that easily - seemed to miss bits of KDE (Kmail for instance), but it didn't take long to figure out what was missing and put it back. I have also managed to install a couple of my fav apps such as Madman and KickPIM. These installed without a hitch. I've no complaints, just praise. I look forward to the final release and am enjoying the prospect of testing 10.00 to final release.
As mentioned by others - there is no reason to login as root. Mandrake and SuSE are similar in approach. 99% of what a user needs to do can be done through your user login. If you need to use root then "su" away............