Three Reviews of Mandrake Linux 9.1
Mar 31, 2003, 19:00 (16 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andrew D. Balsa, Christopher Hickman, Iain Alexander)
DistroWatch: Mandrake 9.1 - Raising the Bar for GNU/Linux
Distribution Usability
[ Thanks to Ladislav
Bodnar for this link. ]
"Mandrake 9.1 is ready, and I have also received an email from
MandrakeClub indicating that 9.1 boxed CD sets are now available
for pre-order (with a hefty discount for club members). Sounds like
a good time to put myself in the seat of a first-time Linux user
and dissect this long-awaited release. I had rehearsed the
installation of Mandrake Linux 9.1 final using 9.1 RC2, and this
time I decided to explore in detail the hardware and software
configuration that I would consider adequate for a comfortable
Mandrake desktop experience. Kind of, a Mandrake 9.1
Certify-It-Yourself PC if you see what I mean... "
Complete
Story
OSNews: YARMDK 9.1 (Yet Another Review of Mandrake Linux
9.1)
"A big part of the hype for Mandrake 9.1 is the look and feel,
particularly with the new Galaxy theme, and I must say I am HIGHLY
impressed. It takes Red Hat's Bluecurve concept and caters it more
towards the home Linux power user than the corporate desktop - KDE
still looks like KDE and Gnome still looks like Gnome even though
the menus are set up in the same manner, and both are undeniably
MANDRAKE. The anti-aliased fonts all look great everywhere, so
that's another plus..."
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Story
OSNews: My Personal Review of Mandrake 9.1
"Let me start by saying that I'm desperate for a real
alternative to Windows on the PC platform. I like Windows XP for a
lot of reasons, and hate it in equal amounts for just as many other
reasons. I want to like Linux, I really truly do. I really want to
be be in a situation where I can migrate happily, easily and with
the minimum of fuss onto another better system in part or fully
over time, but at the moment that day just seems too far
away..."
Complete
Story
Related Stories:
- OSNews: First Mandrake Linux 9.1 Review(Mar 25, 2003)
- OfB.biz: Who Wins The Shootout?(Mar 19, 2003)
- DistroWatch: Mandrake 9.1 RC1 - Desktop, Laptop, Small Server: a Three-In-One Review(Mar 04, 2003)
- DistroWatch: Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 2 - Mandrake Linux for the Rest of Us(Feb 14, 2003)
- DistroWatch: Mandrake Linux 9.1 - More is [More | Less | Don't Know Anymore](Feb 10, 2003)
- DistroWatch: Mandrake Linux 9.1--The Beauty and the Beast(Jan 30, 2003)
- DistroWatch: Mandrake Linux 9.1--A GNU/Linux Distribution in the Making [Part II](Jan 24, 2003)
- DistroWatch.com: Mandrake Linux 9.1--A GNU/Linux Distribution in the Making(Jan 17, 2003)
