Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0

CoolCat writes "It seems that Mandrake 9.0 has been surpassed or at least catched up by the latest versions of Red Hat and SuSE. OSNews has the review of the new Mandrake version and they have hit a number of bugs and problems. In fact, a number of Mandrake users in the OSNews comment's section agree that this release has been buggy and not a big step from version 8.2 or their competition. I use Mandrake for years and I really hope that the next version will bring us back the good ol' Mandrake we knew..."

Comments

Basic rules of grammar...

[MasonMcD]

"catched?" Do forks need to fly in you eyes before you edit?

Re:Basic rules of grammar...

[MasonMcD]

Erm... that should be "your" eyes

Re:Basic rules of grammar...

[SmokeSerpent]

Why you problem! English not langage all speak in native moroon? Edit no posting to start make change and all be uncertain what say submit person and even speaking american people so what! Language fluid thing is to be undertood matters all, and who to say you are what is' the corrected way to write one thing or some other one thing:

Re:Basic rules of grammar...

[mandolin]

(engrish snipped)

How'd you do that? Did ya run it back and forth through babelfish a few times? :-)

.. that would make a fun webpage filter, actually.

Re:Basic rules of grammar...

[SmokeSerpent]

No, I just made it up.

Re:By Eugenia Loli-Queru

[Anonymous Coward]

do not forget, she is a UI designer and web developer

Oooh, a web developer - isn't she so smart then. Those credentials and $3.50 will get you a cup of coffee here in Seattle.

Re:Mandrake 9 found my sound card; Redhat 8 did no

[CanadaDave]

Yeah, well YellowDog found my cat. Mandrake did not!

The Eugenia Loli-Queru Linux distro drinking game:

[kreese]

Preparation: several kegs of beer, a lot of glasses, and a browser open at osnews.com

Participants: as many Linux, er, "fans" as possible.

Method: someone reads the review out loud. Best that they are a designated reader, as things tend to get messy. Then...

Scull one glass every time:
- BEOS is mentioned
- Eugenia replies to comments within three minutes of them being posted
- the words "my", "Celeron" and "533" appear in a sentence
- Eugenia refers to herself (this alone should make most pass out by the end of the first page)

Scull two glasses every time:
- the linux on desktop argument is exhumed
- some sly comment is made about tightwad companies not paying for mp3 licensing fees
- you hear a complaint about not a given distro being newbie friendly within 20 seconds of hearing a shell command line...er, command quoted

Bypass the glass and drink straight from the keg every time:
- you suspect that complaints about the distro's UI are overwhelming the substance of the review
- the review doesn't complain about nvidia at all
- somebody exclaims "what the f**k is she talking about!?"

and

Eat your hat if:
- Eugenia refrains from responding acidly to comments in her reviews
- you understand what the major fundamental difference is between a distro marked as 7.6/10 and one marked 7.8/10

BTW, if you get an opportunity to eat your hat, call a taxi, you're done for the night.

Re:catched up ??

[AppyPappy]

Now thar ain't nuthin wrong with sayin "catched up". Why juss the other day, I had to git catched up with the pigs when they got out the house. Catched up is a specially good way of speaking and I should know cause I'uns went to college.

Well, UVA anyway.