Linked by Manish Bansal on Tue 6th Jan 2004 17:50 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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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Java & Flash
by Daniel Cedilotte on Wed 7th Jan 2004 17:44 UTC

The fact that Java and Flash doesn't come with Linux is nothing new. The only distros that come with Java are Slackware and JDS( Java Desktop System ). Other than that, no others up to now have had it as a default. Hell, even Windows never came with Java or Flash. And it's not going to come with it in the near future.