Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Nov 2002 22:20 UTC
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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Hell, OS X, SUE 8.1, and even Windows pro are all cheaper.
YAST IMO is one fo the ebst things ever invented, though it culd eba lot more user friendly and speedy, it outmaches all otehr tools in power. SuSE's update is also better, i already got KDE 3.0.5 thrugh YAST and a ton fo upgrades.
You can't compare Windows 2000 Pro or XP to any "Pro" Linux distribution. You would have to compare it at least to a server version, which is at least 3 times more expensive than any of these distros.
I own SuSE 8.1 pro, and I have to say it is truly much much better priced and definetely worth the $49 (I got the subscription plan, so it's only 49).
Compare apples with apples please!! Prosuite subscription is $125 per version, and includes StarOffice 6.0 and a few other full packages. And I am not sure if the support would compare either.
In fact SuSE probably had the best value for the money out of all the major disitributions Pro editions. It all also looked really attractive. SuSE is the best IMO, I can evens ent a support query rigt from YAST, that's convinient
All of this is subjective and debateable. rpmdrale/urpmi are fine, I am running KDE3.1 already just using those (but of course on cooker). 3.0.5 is out for 9.0 etc already, but currently "unsupported". Considering that Mandrake does have a smaller team, this is understandeable, but how many people *really* need anything but the security fixes?
Check out my SUSE desktop too: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=4030
Their widnow decoraton is so kick ass!
Is this really that important? Mandrake has more features the directly affect useability. And how do we know what there is from the distro, when you have the Noia icons and other deco that is clearly post SuSE??