OSNews: Review of Mandrake Linux 10.1 for x64

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 14, 2005

“I haven’t tested as many distros as most Linux gurus, hence the
first version of Linux I used was Red Hat 7. Needless to say, I
wasn’t that impressed with it since at the time Linux wasn’t as
half as sophisticated as it is now. When I bought my AMD64 chip I
wanted to use the 64-bit features for my chip and as you all know
Windows is not in the 64-bit world right now for desktops. So I
purchased Mandrake Linux AMD64 9.2 and thought it was a nice
system, but far too buggy. I like my Suse 9.1 Pro system, but I
wanted to give Mandrake another go…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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