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Mandrake Linux Development Process Changes
joestar writes "Just found at MandrakeLinux.com: 'MandrakeSoft today announced a major evolution in the way that future Mandrake Linux distributions will be engineered and released. The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products.' In short: for each release, there will be a 'Community' release, equivalent to a common Mandrake release, with all latest features. Several months later an 'Official' release - based on the 'Community' - will be available. Both of them will be released publicly and supported. The new process will start with the upcoming Mandrake 10.0."
I don't dislike Mandrake but after a year and a half I decided to try Suse 9.0 Pro and I'm glad I did. It works, right out of the box.
Mandrake, otoh, was a constant struggle to get all the features to function properly.
It was OK for someone that never fiddles with their system, I have a friend using MDK 9.1 and it's fine for him but he does very little with it. For heavy duty users, it's a battle.
My money now goes to Suse..
Matter of fact, I'm looking into becoming a Suse VAR..
echo 'Red Hat' | sed 's/Red Hat/Mandrake/g'