Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 30th Sep 2002 01:10 UTC
Gentoo, Lindows and Lycoris arguably were the big surprises of the year in the Linux land, but everyone is waiting the release of Red Hat 8.0 with, possibly, the biggest anticipation ever for a Linux distribution. Since Red Hat posted the Limbo and Null betas, fans of the most popular distribution on earth were making waves and even called this new version a Windows killer. Does this really hold up though? Will Red Hat be successful on their quest to infiltrate the business workstation/destkop market? Read more to find out and view some of the high resolution screenshots we have for you! UPDATE: Red Hat 8 is out! ZDNews has an article about the new release of Red Hat 8.0.
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Well, according to this review, Mandrake 9.0 sounds much better. With a press of one button it found all my windoze fonts and installed them under Linux. OpenOffice is fully anti-aliased and has all my windoze fonts under it. Everything looks very sharp and clean, they use Metacity instead of Sawfish, so the desktop feels much faster. The 2.4.19 kernel feels much faster then the 2.4.18 in Mandrake 8.2. And the NTFS support in the kernel completely removed my need to reboot into windows. The installation went smooth even though my 2 CD (the extensions) was corrupt and was hanging. All the menus look unified and have both GNOME and KDE applications. All the KDE apps look as if they were GNOME apps when run under GNOME. I haven't tried KDE 3.0.3 yet (even though it loads by default) because I prefer GNOME with its Mac OS X look. I am sure KDE works fine, but I would like to mention the fact that Mandrake managed to do all this without pissing GNOME and KDE developers. This is the distro I could almost recommend to my friends who don't know much about computers (with Mandrake Control Center 9.0 you can forget about manually editing 90% of config files or using ackward utilities like linuxconf). I bet anything I will able to recommend a Mandrake Linux distro to any of my computer illiterate friends before they hit 10.0.
MANDRAKE 9 IS THE BEST LINUX DISTRIBUTION IN THE WORLD!!!