Read a long review titled “Mandrake Revisited: A Lycoris user revisits the OS he left years earlier“. On a separate note, Linux Format issue 70 presents a Gaël Duval interview.
Read a long review titled “Mandrake Revisited: A Lycoris user revisits the OS he left years earlier“. On a separate note, Linux Format issue 70 presents a Gaël Duval interview.
Uh…OK…sounds interesting and fun. Nothing really new here from prevoius articles released yesterday, but my questions are about the NON-Open parts of SuSE that makes some aspects of it so nice.
Java: Is that going to be integrated into the distro as it is now?
Driver packages, some of which are NOT open sourced but included on the CD/DVD and also as extra downloads after install…are they going to be included?
None of these things are show-stoppers and I think this is a good move overall, but is there something that SUSE Pro users have become accustomed to that they will NOT have available from this coming and subsequent issues?
Anybody know the answers to these questions?
I’m so sorry, that was ME that posted that…I forgot to sign in and I became one of the dreaded “Anonymous” drones…..sorry…that was me.
Not as good as Windows.
This is not a flame – but the sad truth.
and what did you base your detailed analysis on ?
would it be your vast experience of operating systems ?
would it be your vast experience of using desktops ?
would it be your vast experience of submitting usability feedback to software authors ?
or is it just cause you are a troll ?
I bet you have never tried Mandrake
I’ve tried mandrake and I love it (I’m not the guy that said “Windows is best”). Mandrake is what really helped me get into linux. I first tried Debian and sat there staring at a command screen asking myself WTF? Then came knoppix which was great for a livecd. Tried mandrake and was hooked. I havent updated to 2005 (im on 10.1).
I even managed to make a webserver out of it. Now I just have to wait for the Ubuntu cds to come in the mail to try it out.
Mandriva has automated a lot of security settings together with msec in the configure panel that require a lot more time with a lot of other distro’s.Now this mostly isn’t a concern for a seasoned admin but for the average Linux user it is welcome.By setting the overall system security to a higher level , scripts automatically check for suid /sgid files, more strict file permissions/umask settings are applied,with one click of the mouse.At a certain point even doing the same manually CLI wise didn’t thrill me anymore and i decided to swith over to hardened gentoo for some more challenges.Nevertheless i think Mandriva is a good Linux distro with exeptually broad accessible security configuration.
Mandriva is a good OS, but it needs to rethink a couple of issues:
1)The Club: every benefit is given to club members, and hardly anything to everybody else.
Example: I am trying to download Mandriva 2006 beta: there are only one mirror or two, very slow, and an unofficial torrent: I am downloading at 11 kb/s out of a possible 500!
Now with Fedora and Ubuntu being community/open projects and SUSE going to become one, Mandriva badly needs to rethink its club model.
2)URPMI: I am sorry, I keep trying it, but I can’t bring myself to like it: trying to upgrade 2005 LE to 2006 beta from the net was a tedious and cumbersome process.
3)Some “nanny” attitudes: if you want to login in KDE as root, you must literally “create” a working environment. I don’t want to restart the age old discussion about logging as root, but I firmly believe that a distro shouldn’t act as a nanny.
And BTW I’d like to see a listening attitude from whoever is in charge of Mandriva. Very often it feels as if nobody at all is in charge.
@ Anonymous Penguin
1)downloading Mandriva 2006 beta
it took me one minute to find a mirror that gave me 200K/s (thats my max)
2)urpmi updates: did you use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ ?
3)there is NO REASON to work at root, that’s what sudo and su for
Thanks
1)But then this page:
http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/mandrivalinux-2006-beta.php3
is misleading
2) Oh yes. I added the update media and everything, but still I found the process cumbersome.
3) Maybe, but Mandriva is the only distro which decides what is good for me.
“1)downloading Mandriva 2006 beta
it took me one minute to find a mirror that gave me 200K/s (thats my max)”
Thanks again. I had a look at all mirrors again and now I am downloading at maximum speed, and a more recent snapshot too.
I’ve been using Mandrake for over a year and am hooked. It’s not my favourite distro, but I can’t stop using it!
Every time I switch (to Ubuntu, SuSE, Debian etc.) I always switch back after a few weeks (the record is Kubuntu, which I kept for a month).
What makes Mandrake so usable for a power user? It provides simple administration tools (drakconf) whilst at the same time not limiting you by removing development packages or oversimplifying. As long as this stays, I’ll be keeping Mandrake. Just without the evil Galaxy theme.
finally a linux distro that will do wireless with very little configuration. mandriva and belkin card on my thinkpad freed me from win98 while on the road.
yes, the club thing is a pain but i understand some people do need money for a life.
javajazz
thank you testerus. you gave a very useful link. updates were available to kde and he kernel and clamscan. wonder why the default “media” did not pick them up!?
javajazz