OSNews: Review: Mandrake Linux 10 | Linux Today

OSNews: Review: Mandrake Linux 10

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 28, 2004

“I know that a lot of people have posted reviews on Mandrake,
SuSE, Fedora, etc. but here is mine. I downloaded the first 3
Mandrake CDs from LinuxISO and then burned them to a CD while in
Windows to get to work. I had a Windows XP installation on my 100GB
hard drive, but I only have it on 30GB because Windows acts up so
much.

“Click for a larger view Just pop in the first cd into your
drive and you are ready to get started I read about a whole bunch
of extra drivers, etc but I think that any modern BIOS will boot
right off of the cd and you’ll have no trouble. I have tried
Mandrake before, back when it hit 8.0, and Red Hat 9, and just
tried Fedora Core 3 a few weeks ago, but they never stayed on my
hard drive that long…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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