Linked by David Donley on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:53 UTC
I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
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I am a longtime Mandrake user and i only have one major complaint about it and that is the lousy package manager rpmdrake. It seems to have become a worse app over time. Every since version 9 (i think) it has been broke down into two seperate apps, one that installs packages and one that removes them. This is pretty stupid.
After having used synaptic on a fedora system it is painfully obvious how bad rpmdrake is. Mandrake should dump it like a truckload of toxic waste and develop a better gui for urpmi.
Other than that its a pretty good distro. I do think it leaves out some import packages on the initial install which means that you will be using the annoyingly stupid rpmdrake very soon after logging in for the first time.