[ Thanks to Jenn for this
link. ]
“I have tried for the last three weeks to generate a review of
Mandrake 9.0 without much success. Not that I have ever been
accused of being at a loss for words, but this particular release
has left me speechless. I can’t think of much to say about this
release that hasn’t already been said about several other Linux
distributions.“Perhaps that’s the problem. As I have been working with this
release, I have had this reoccurring thought–‘This looks like YALR
(Yet Another Linux Release)’. There is little to distinguish this
product from the other distributions that I’ve installed in the
last three years. They all have the same interface options, Gnome
or KDE, and they all have similar functionality aimed at their own
niche markets. There is nothing in particular that ‘grabs me’ and
convinces me to make a change in distros. What convinced me to
switch from Slackware to Red Hat? That’s easy. It was the easy to
use package management system (compared to Slackware in 1996). The
short version of the story: I was trying to install Postgres by
hand (i.e., from sources) and couldn’t get the post office to
initialize. I installed Red Hat 5.2 and viola! It worked…”