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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..."
Catched up? That's just lovely.
The Mac of Linux distros.
Its users are cultists who love to pretend they are better than everyone because of their OS, but who couldn't use a CLI if their lives depended on it.
It's really not a wonder why they are stagnating. It takes a long time to develop a UI dumb enough for most users. It took Microsoft years before Windows was easy enough for Mandrake-user-types. Apple was able to create one right away with MacOS, but they've got a ton of money and some really smart people working there. It takes smart people to make dumbed UIs.
I have shit caked all over my nutsack. You must now smell the nutsack. SMELL IT DAMMIT! Or I will slay all you mother fuqers!!! GNOME is the r0X0rz and KDE is for f4G0rtz!
you're dumb
Judging from your post, it doesn't have any hair on it yet, either.
Russian, chinese, Japanese, hebrew, german, and even spanish? Are you, as an ugly american, capable of doing even a bit of another language? Somehow I doubt it.
I'll stick with Lindows. Lindows is Debian-based distribution which offers an excellent set of GUI-tools, and is easy to install for the newbie. Also, it will be around in 5 years from now because Lindows has a REAL business strategy, which means making people pay for their product and not offering it for free for download online, while still complying with the GPL.
Also, Lindows knows what it wants to be. I wants to be a GNU/Linux distribution for the average desktop user.
That said, I'm not a newbie and I don't need hand-holding. I personally use Debian, because of its great track-record for stability, and because I can freely obtain it. Any graphical tools which I like in Lindows I can also get in Debian, either by download or by buying the Lindows CD and putting those apps on my computer.
Despite sticking with Debian, however, I really think that Lindows is a great thing for Debian GNU/Linux. Lindows can be to Debian GNU/Linux what OSX is to FreeBSD: an easy-to-use OS designed for ease of use for a new user (a diplomat between the world of power-users and newbies). Also, I'm excited about how Lindows is being sold pre-installed on very cheap computers. This is great, because many people just need a computer for very basic needs, and Lindows helps one buy a computer for under 500 dollars. This might be just the thing GNU/Linux needs to get newbies on-board.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
"- the review doesn't complain about nvidia at all"
What's there to complain about nVidia? It better not be the open source stuff you guys keep complaining about...