“I found the GNOME desktop more appealing than KDE until I found
Mandrakelinux 10. Mandrake looked good to me, from its fonts to its
slide bars. On the functional side, it had some wonderful system
administration tools, graphical and centralized. But for some
reason Mandrake 10 didn’t find my home wireless network. That led
me to search for alternatives. I discovered PCLinuxOS, a free
LiveCD distribution originally based on Mandrake.“Recently a significant new release came out: PCLinuxOS Preview
8, or P8 for short. PCLinuxOS looks like Mandrake, with the same
great tools. So what distinguishes P8 from Mandrake 10.x…?”
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