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 seriously doubt you have "privileged" access to the final version of Mandrake Linux 9.1 a week early. Unless you have a time machine I am not aware of. The current status is 9.1rc3 as of this time of me writing this comment. And you have stated you have had it a week. Now you may have downloaded the cooker "hot off the press tweaked and poked last night" version but certainly not the final release. Plus, there is no special privilege to download this, anyone can do this. Besides this I do think you wrote a fairly good review and I do like the things you had to say. The one thing that woudl amuse me a good amount though is if they change something or fix something in the REAL final release that by the remote possibility breaks compatability with the version you downloaded. As for everyone else that wishes to test the same version she did, you do not have to be privileged. To all others I would suggest you all stick to offical releases though unless you would like to help in its development or send in bug reports for Cooker, RCs, and betas.
I must say, I like the review though, I hope the best for this release of Mandrake as from what I see it seems to look as if though it is a very promising release. I do think when they offically release this version it will be something I will enjoy using. Thank you for the review, sorry about my minor complaint if it offended you.