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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Eugenia has a nice site and nice reviews, but the title is pretentious and she should be grateful and emphasize the fact that Mandrake is not Lindows or Xandros, and that they give free access to their 100% GPL or free licenced development distribution (which becomes final when they freeze it). That would be more accurate than to claim there was a kind of special agreement.
Overall, this distribution is really excellent, tools are fantastic (urpmi to download and install softwares), networking and file sharing is very easy to set up. PLF packages give anything which cannot be distributed, especially the DVD decryption for xine or mplayer.
Here are docs to set up urpmi after installing Mandrake and than install easily softwares, DVD playing and other stuff :
http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php
http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33668481
http://urpmi.org/
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jwrobinson/docs.html