Linuxguiden (Norway): Mandrake. No longer “Red Hat and some stuff”

[ Thanks to isp909
for this link. ]

“This is the prettiest installastionprogram ever included in a
linuxdistribution.”

“The installprogram quickly turned out to be not only beautiful,
but easy and functional as well. A good partioning-scheme, using
“diskdrake”, makes the transition from Windows to Linux
easier.”

“I was told that I could upgrade from almost any version of
Mandrake, but not from Red Hat. I decided to try it anyway…”

“Bang! Lots of error-messages…”

“I fired up the bootable CD again, and used “install” instead of
“upgrade”…”

“Searching for Hardware went extraordinarily good, and for the
first time, I had the pleasure of finding out that my Soundblaster
Live! was not only find, but also properly configured. Big
plus!”

“My first go at the Mandrake KDE-desktop did knock me off my
feet.”

“Mandrake is way faster than Red Hat, because all the packages
are compiled with Pentium-optimizations. This means that Mandrake
is worthless for your elderly 3/486, but I don’t mind.”

“Mandrake is a very thorough distribution, with a lot of
positive sides, and a lot less negative ones.”

Complete
story.