OSNews: First Look at TurboLinux 10D

“It’s no secret that Turbolinux is really focusing on Asian
nations with this release. They are helping China move to a digital
infrastructure. The new distribution’s codename is ‘Suzuka.’ It
offers, even in the installer, to run Simplified Chinese, Japanese,
or Korean. It’s been available in Asia for some time, and isn’t yet
available in the US. Turbolinux is the first major distribution to
release a version ’10’ of their release, although it should be
noted that to the best of my knowledge, there is no TurboLinux 9D.
That said, it ships with modern components such as kde 3.1.3, glibc
2.3.2, XFree86 4.3, and gcc 3.3.1, not to mention a
hot-off-the-press kernel.

“Generally, when reviewing a new distribution, I try to stay
away from going into too much detail with the installer. The
Turbolinux install, however, is a unique program called ‘Mongoose.’
Mongoose has a lot of the look of the new Mandrake installation but
the feel of Red Hat’s Anaconda (it may even be based on Anaconda
code). The Installer offers three choices–Standard install, Turbo
install, or Upgrade…”

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