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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"one seems to make mandrake puke all the time while the other replies that's spreading FUD,
well i use linux all the time and am a very avid fan and advocate, still i also think mandrake crashes a lot"
I have no major issues with Linux. I do have minor ones that together I find terribly irritating, but nothing that would cause me to tell people to avoid Linux in general. To be clear, I am mainly a FreeBSD guy that likes DragonFly and Mac OS X, but to most people looking for an alternative OS, I generally recomend Linux because it's (IMO) easier for newbies to install (though I myself find FreeBSD's installer stupid simple).
I just can't recomend Mandrake. What some simple, weak willed folks around here think, is that by 'bad mouthing' Mandrake, which IN MY EXPERIENCE is a horrible excuse for a Linux distribution, that I am spereading (ugh, I HATE this phrase) FUD, to which I must now reply "Bullshit." "Grow up." "Get a life outside of Linux" (computers, operating systems whatever). Some people are WAY too touchy about these things. I'm a computer nut for sure, but damn, some people here are real wankers.