
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.
TheGIMP 1.2.5 is not an old version, it's the current stable, including 1.3.23 wouldn't be a good move if the idea of this release is to demo software which will be included in 10.0, GIMP2.0's release may be delayed, and what's this about CMYK support? it has a colour proof display filter, but other than that it doesn't do colour management as such, and CMYK support isn't implemented much(if any) better than in 1.2.x, AFAIK.
as for Mozilla with default themes, is it compiled against GTK2? if so, using the clasic theme should use GTK2 themed widgets, should it not? i guess since you're using KDE that doesn't help you.