Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 25th Mar 2003 03:25 UTC
OSNews was privileged to an early access to the final version of Mandrake Linux 9.1 Standard Edition and we were able to test it for almost a week now. Here is our review. Update: Added four screenshots. Update 2: Mandrake Linux 9.1 is out, read the PR, get it from mirrors, buy it or join the Club, from links found here.
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I hate to get into distro vs distro but having used the recent Mandrake 9.1 beta and SuSE 8.1 you are probably better off with Mandrake. The two distros are pretty similar but even though SuSE is not free is does not really offer you anything mandrake does not provide for free. I would pick the free download edition of Mandrake over SuSE, I think the KDE menu is the only thing that SuSE did better than Mandrake. I prefer the Mandrake installer and Mandrake’s Control Center to SuSE’s YaST. In order to sell SuSe professional SuSE personal does not ship with many development tools you may need, Apache, and various other useful things. If you are going to buy Mandrake I would recommend using the free download version and subscribing to the Mandrake Club ($60/y). The main thing the club has to offer is additional built/tested rpm’s. You can request and vote for packages to be built by the club. Working with RPM’s for me is the most frustrating thing about Linux, the Mandrake Club partly solves this. Mandrake’s user-base is also much larger so finding support and packages is often less difficult, upgrading Mandrake is also cheaper (free). Some people disagree with me, but I think overall the general consensus between the two is Mandrake.