“As Mandrake never ported version 8.1 of their Linux distribution to the PPC platform, the latest available version till now was Mandrake PPC 8.0. While the latter certainly was a nice distribution, yet it started being really outdated and even had trouble installing on recent Apple hardware. So many people certainly wonder now whether Mandrake PPC 8.2 has been worth waiting for so long. Well, without giving anything away yet, it WAS worth waiting.”
Read the rest of the review at iMacLinux. Update: TheRegister also has a review, but they do not seem very happy about Mandrake 8.2 for x86.
Review of Mandrake PPC 8.2 at iMacLinux
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Here I can only agree, because my “oldworld” PowerPC 4400/200 runs MandrakeLinux 8.2 great (for two weeks now), although its armed with only 80MB of RAM and a Voodoo3 card, which was some time a problem for linuxppc.
“So to sum up, just in case my characteristic subtlety and mildness of expression went over your head, Mandrake 8.2 was for me a fucking disaster.” – – the Register