(lt ed. — We have linked to this review because it has
useful content, not because of the quality of the
writing.)
“I for one have mixed feelings about graphical installers… I
think Mandrake has done the best job on this so far.”
“… you can now set up your Internet connection during the
install process..even if you have a DSL connection.”
“All around the Install process when very well, and with a 48X
CDROM I was up and running in about 20 minutes, with a fairly
complete install of Mandrake. Your mileage may vary.”
“… they managed to get the very latest 2.2 kernel into this
release. Including a feature called SuperMount. Which seems to
detect media being put into the disk drive and automount. A great
feature, especially for new users fresh over from Windows…”
“DrakConf (Linuxconf on steroids?)… I will admit a bias right
up front on this one, I am have never been a big fan of GUI admin
interfaces. The DrakConf is has a petty simple interface which the
novice can easily use to make some basic changes to their
system.”
“If you are looking for an easy to install and fairly
complete distribution, optimized for the Pentium processor, then
Mandrake 7 is worth looking at, and being 100% compatible with
Red Hart certainly doesn’t seem to hurt their position any.”
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