Capnkirby: Mandriva 2006 [Review]

“A few years back when I realized that Linux was becoming my
passion, and that Lycoris was not powerfully enough for my needs, I
found Mandrake. In Mandrake I found a powerfully easy to use and
imminently likable Distro. It was leading if not bleeding edge,
keeping the repositories very up to date and full of the latest
applications. I loved it! No questions asked. Over time, I began to
become frustrated with it’s limited stability, difficult community,
and the near inability of the installer to effectively upgrade
itself from one release to the next without problems requiring
complete re-installs for every new release. When Texstar released
PCLinuxOS, based on Mandrake 9.2, I was gone, and have not been
back, until now. With the newest release, and all the hype of the
merger with Conectiva and Lycoris, I felt it was time for another
look…”

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