Star Review of Mandrake Linux ProSuite Edition 9.0
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Nov 2002 22:20 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris MandrakeSoft and Pearson Education sent us over a copy of their latest "pro" edition of the popular Linux Mandrake 9.0. We already wrote a review about Linux Mandrake 9.0, so this is going to be a review of the ProSuite deal specifically and what you get for $199 USD RPP (easily found for around $175 USD in the market). Update: Apparently, StarOffice 6.0 is included in its full version with the distribution. Too bad Mandrake does such a poor job and include its RPMs along with some hundreds other demos in the two Commercial CDs, without saying a word about it (or where to find it) in the "Commercial Software Guide" booklet or another really prominent place.
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by Alex on Thu 21st Nov 2002 01:37 UTC

SuSE's Pro is better and a lot cheaper. You can post a support query right from YAST and they usually have a little more indepth support, even though they aren't required to.

Furthermore you get more manuals, which I think are better written,a cd/dvd jewel case, stickers, brochures, attractive quiskstart, stickers and much more.

I also think SuSE's product is much much better looking than Mandrake's defauly butt ugly KDE. Don't tell me to download new ones, some of SuSE's gorgeous art like the window decorationa dn kicker tile for example, isn't available
online.

I like Mandrake's openess, but their product is not competitively priced and doesen't have mucha dded value.