First Mandrake 9.1 Review Out 313
icantblvitsnotbutter writes "With Mandrake Linux 9.1 right around the corner, it's OSNews first out of the gates with a review of this desktop-oriented distro's latest release. The review is actually pretty bland, skimming the surface to linger on some of Eugenia's pet peeves. Having used 9.1 in a production environment since beta 3, I can say that the improvements to the installation and the signature Mandrake tools are much-appreciated. Don't forget that Mandrake Club members get their own set of mirrors, as well as being eligible for extras like the voting process that selected the packages for the 9.1 release." Update: 03/25 18:29 GMT by T : anyweb also points out a review of Red Hat Linux 9 on the same site, writing "an informative article -- well I had to say that, I wrote it ;-)"
My 1-item wishlist (Score:5, Interesting)
I sent this request to the Mandrake developers at 8.0. As of 9.0, this feature was still not available. Probably won't be there for 9.1, but I can hope.
Re:Mouse buttons... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I still think SuSE is better (Score:3, Interesting)
I bought the Pro-Pack. Yup, I dropped $80 bucks (US) on it only to find out that when I went to update it, it totally b0rked itself. Nice. Oh, I had to DL the new RPM manually, and install that. OK, not that big a deal, I was used to RPM hell at that point. Oh, well there were 20 or so dependencies for that dependency. Err... well, 30 or so to get those dependencies of the dependencies installed cleanly. Oh, well, I still had to hack at some config files. Well, but that really wasn't enough since I still had to re-update somethings. I'd love to watch "Joe Six-Pack (tm)" do that.
I switched to Gentoo.
Perhaps SuSE 8.1 is better. I honestly don't know, and to be quite frank, I don't intend on finding out. Portage is FAR superior to YAST.
This is just my opinion.
KDE and GNOME "Galaxy" theme (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:My 1-item wishlist (Score:2, Interesting)
I think that several upgrades using a tool like you mention, no matter how well designed, would still leave a bunch of OS lint lying about.
I personally format
It usually only takes a few hours post-install to get back to everything humming the way it was.
Of course, this assumes that you have enough disk space to create all these partitions in the first place...
Right approach (Score:2, Interesting)
However, nobody's still sure of any kinds of business model on Linux desktop distribution. Would Dell adopt Linux desktop sometime in near future? HP? Gateway? Wal-Mart?