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Mandrake 9.2 Initial Review

Posted by michael on from the fast-food dept.

joestar writes "Mandrake Linux 9.2 was released yesterday, and a first review is already available at ofb.biz! It focuses on the new desktop-oriented Mandrake 9.2 flavor, the Discovery, a 2-CD office/multimedia product for beginners which comes without any server capability. It seems that a new competitor to Windows is born, and according to Tim Butler, 'Another key to making a distribution novice friendly is insuring that everything works out of the box, and Mandrake Linux 9.2 succeeds there.(...) To the best of my knowledge the only other distribution presently including the Radeon drivers from ATI is Lindows.' Waiting for reviews of 'real' Mandrake 9.2 products (PowerPack, Corporate Server...), this review is nevertheless quite comprehensive and very interesting reading, and this new Mandrake Discovery thing should do well with the public, at least as an office desktop affordable solution in corporations."

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  1. goner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    anyone get a chance to mirror the review? Looks like MySQL has pooped all over itself already.

  2. Slackware 9.1 review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Nobody has bothered yet, so I'll post my review of the recently-released Slackware 9.1:

    It works.

  3. That page is an excelent example that... by phre4k · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should always make php-scripts die if the db fails:


    Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/uninet/public_html/open/includes/sql_layer.p hp on line 235 Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/uninet/public_html/open/includes/sql_layer.p hp on line 235 Warning: mysql_free_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/uninet/public_html/open/includes/sql_layer.p hp on line 491 Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/uninet/public_html/open/includes/sql_layer.p hp on line 283 Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/uninet/public_html/open/includes/sql_layer.p hp on line 339

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    "Nobody really checks their email any more. They just delete their spam"
  4. Time to change domains... by johnthorensen · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...to www.cfb.biz

    5.274 minutes after being posted to slashdot, ofb.biz is now Closed for Business :)

    -JT

  5. Secure! by supabeast! · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...which comes without any server capability."

    No daemons listening, no remote overflows! Yummies!

  6. DMCA ALERT!! by Stevyn · · Score: 2, Funny

    you just told people how to circumvent something having to do with a computer! That's in violation of the DMCA. VMware's stock (I know they're private, humor?) just went down .004% and cost them millions which you must pay back.

  7. Slapped Down! by Bombcar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow! Nothing says "bitch slap!" as much as someone with a UID over half a million being whipped around by a RatBastard with a UID of 3 digits!

    *Bows before the Low UID Overlord*

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    Fellowship 9/11