Mandrake 9.2 Initial Review · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Thursday October 16, 2003 @02:42AM 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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Re:Discovery. by Feztaa · 2003-10-16 05:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

What company owns Linux?

There isn't one. That's why a Linux "monoculture" would be better than the current Windows monoculture, because it wouldn't be. You'd have Mandrake boxes, RedHat boxes, SuSE boxes, Slackware boxes, Debian boxes, Gentoo boxes, and the millions of other distributions.

The important point is that they'd all be different, they'd have better firewalls, and they'd all be running less crappy software than on any given Windows box.