ExtremeTech: Review Results: A Summary of Our Desktop Linux Reviews

“Top Distribution: Mandrake

“Very easy to set up and use by the novice, yet extremely
capable and extensible for the experienced user. Mandrake has
developed very good ‘Drak’ wizards for all major functions
(especially diskdrak, the disk partitioning tool) and has organized
them well in their Control Center. Mandrake offers documentation on
their CDs, in their boxed sets, and on their Web pages, plus an
online Mandrake Campus and Mandrake Experts that complement the
easy set up and allow most users to ease into the Linux
experience.

“Best for Business: Red Hat

“Red Hat produces a variety of products and services that have
been useful in business, and the market has responded by giving Red
Hat about 75% of the total Linux market, at least in the U.S. Red
Hat isn’t the best distro on the desktop, but Version 8.0 is
greatly improved, to the point that some people prefer it over all
others. For the desktop market, Red Hat lacks only one tool: an
automatic disk partitioning tool…”

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