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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After reading some of the comments here, I think I have to comment some of your postings by myself:
Here in Germany you pay the same Price for Red Hat Pro as for Mandrake Pro, they both cost about 199 Eur, btw if you register your prosuite (does not cost anything) you get two update-cds with all the update-packages, and urpmi is only just short of apt-get, when it comes to installing security-updates and such things
The default look of a Linux Distribution is somewhat secondary, because you can tweak it, if you are not able to do this, then thats your problem, hey btw you can even skin WinXP, although thats not what Microsoft intended
Where does the Mandrake Installer ask you too much ???, it does not ask more or less than the Red Hat Installer, maybe you try the "recommended" route next time, I alwyas try the "expert" route, because I want to be asked where the bootloader should belong; lets have an example: what if it does not detect your plug&pray monitor correct, does not ask you and your X11 sucks, then you would whine too
I like to have a choice of Window-Managers, i like Mandrake for having a consistent menu-structure regardless of the window-manager since some time, have you ever seen the menu in suses gnome, not very nice
the mandrake control center has really grown better each version i had since 8.1, you can really administer most parts of your system from there, and I think suses yast is not that much more comfortable
the cds of my red hat 8.0 had only paper envelopes too, and I do not think that suse has jewel-cases in 8.1, in 8.0 they did not
maybe you have all the office suite and so on when you buy a new windows, some poeple do not have, so the linux-distros are cheaper than windows, I never heard of a windows XP Pro shipping with a web server or a ftp-server or a mail-server and so on, thats all part of windows 2000 Server which costs much more
I use red hat 7.3,8.0, mandrake since 8.1, debian woody, lycoris/LX, knoppix !!! since 2.1 (its a debian on a live-cd, great !!!) and I like them all, I use Suse 7.3 and 8.0 too, at work, but I do not like them really, but that is really something personally
last note: the mandrake-Isos could be downloaded even befor you could buy the distro !!!, so if you only want to have have have, but not buy, then you could have downloaded it (some people like to pay the guys at mandrake and red hat for doing a great job)
dont get me wrong, the only thing i hated in this thread was this my distro-is-better-than-yours tone, and some of the half-truths that were used to support the own distro, no distro is perfect, and all have their strong and weak points, hey I really like the look of kde in suse 8.1
now thats what I had to say
with regards