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 believe Totem is just an alternative GUI to the xine >libraries. Meaning, for all practical purposes, Totem is >xine. I never liked the original xine gui anyway. And mplayer >can wipe the floor with xine anyday anyhoo.
Mplayer doesn't even have menu support for DVDs. And it's use of processor resources leaves a lot to be desired... like 50% of processor use when watching a DVD while xine uses just 28-31%.
Anyway I have the 2 of them installed. To have only one multimedia application would be like having windows ME installed...and WMP suck..