A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite

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A Galaxy of Possibility: Mandrake 9.1 ProSuite

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 2, 2003 @11:16AM from the switching-is-better-than-lashing dept.

uninet writes "Our last consideration of Mandrake Linux was early this year when my colleague Eduardo Sanchez thoroughly reviewed Mandrake 9.0. In that review, Sanchez noted the numerous advances made in 9.0, but also reported some serious flaws that somewhat limited his enthusiasm. With that considered, we were anxious to find out if 9.1 could again return Mandrake to the amazing quality achieved in release 8.2. See what we found (including a look at features exclusive to the ProSuite edition)."

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I won't use Mandrake by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-02 11:22 · Score: 4, Funny

But... if someone wants to make a fork, call it Womandrake, and includes lots of hot chicks throughout, I'll be there in a minute.
1. Re:I won't use Mandrake by God!+Awful+2 · 2003-09-02 21:49 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Hmm... makes sense. And then, instead of Mandake ProSuite, we can have Womandrake ProStitute.
  
  (That's how I read it as I was scrolling past anyway.)
  
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2. Re:I won't use Mandrake by rifter · 2003-09-03 01:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Though its not called Womandrake, it does come with porn-get instead of RPM.
  
  Sadly, Lesbian GNU/Linux appears to be a hoax, like mslinux and Jesux. It is too bad. I think the porn-get is something that could be worked on. There are some apps in sourceforge to help get porn, but really this is something that has not been properly refined. I think it would be neat to work on some Free Software that grabs Free Porn from the net and maybe even displays it or launches the requisite apps. It shoudl be cross-platform, too.
  
  Just think, if Joe Sixpack downloads this easy porn getter software from C|net for his XP box, and sees it is Free Software with a GPL License and works on Linux, he gets introduced to these concepts and maybe when he is done looking at porn he will check them out, too. Unless he just takes a nap. ;)
Pro Sweet by Hilleh · 2003-09-02 11:24 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm glad we have such a professional Sweet of software availiable to the users. This is so Suite!
Where's the beef?! by wfberg · 2003-09-02 11:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Eduardo Sanchez will return to provide another thorough review of the base Mandrake Linux system. His review will consider, in depth, installation, administration, usage, and performance of Mandrake Linux 9.1.

OK. So there IS no beef? I thought that was supposed to be a spoon.

(Wasted another good, what, 3 minutes of my life RTFA - those kids should take classes and learn about paragraphs, beginnings, middles and endings.)

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Re:eeek by VisorGuy · 2003-09-02 11:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe that's why it comes with 8 CDs as well as the DVD?

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prostitute by gears5665 · 2003-09-02 12:40 · Score: 2, Funny

am I the only one that thinks "Prosuite" looks way too much like "Prostitute"?
1. Re:prostitute by Goldberg's+Pants · 2003-09-02 18:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yes.
Re:Mandrake on the fly by DJCouchyCouch · 2003-09-02 12:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Isn't that, oh I donno, really freakin' dangerous? :)

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