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Mandrake Linux... Not Dead Yet?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-download dept.

bloodeu writes "Mandrake Linux has been beaten down by linux experts alike, but this new release of Mandrake may hold many promising Linux users what they have been waiting for, like NTFS resizing(which is a first), Automatic Network config(zeroconf), Supermount, and many more. You can download the Mandrake 9.1 RC1 Here"

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  1. NTFS by NickisGod.com · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Um, okay. Maybe I've been out of the loop when it comes to Linux/NTFS compatibility. I thought we were still kinda' afraid to write to NTFS partitions. Now we can resize them.

    Can someone please elaborate?

  2. Mandrake, it's easy, SO? by perotbot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So it's easy, when is the linux community going to drop this attitude of "Linux is supposed to be hard".

    In the last three weeks I've tried RedHat 8.0(too slow on a 366mhz machine), Yopper, Knoppix (lots of stuff) and Mandrake 9.0. Of them all, I'm using mandrake. Why? because everything worked, first time, everytime. So I went out and bought a copy. Voting with my wallet, the easiest thing to do. I hope they make it out of Chapter 11 or whatever the french equivalent is. They're providing the gateway to make it easier to switch, without the cost overhead that Lindows requires.

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    ~corporate tool, but employed~