“Today we are looking at Linux Mandrake, a relative newcomer but which has picked up a large user base through the years which keep its development alive and well. The first version of Mandrake was based on Red Hat which is a fine distro in itself. The makers wanted too keep all that was good with Red Hat and get rid of all the bad, such as using KDE instead of GNOME as default desktop. Over the years, though, it has changed from simply being Red Hat repackaged into a separate distro in its own right. However if you dig deep enough you can still see the Red Hat roots but we are not really interested in that.” You can read the full 7 page review over at Techseekers.
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It has been around for a long long time. For a long long time it had its edge against Red Hat and risen to become a major distribution. Now, rather quickly, its egde is being washed away, and Mandrakesoft refuses to budge out of its current product vision even though the market has moved on.
I’ve got an old PC that i have setup with mandrake 8.2 on it. I use the box as a test server/educational tool.
Mandrake is a pretty good linux distro that gives you alot of applications/options to chose from. Mandrake comes with 4 CDs, 3 of which are applications that can be installed with the click of a mouse. This makes life very easy. However with my personal experiences, i dont think that mandrake is a stable OS. have I issues with the mandrake box almost daily. Problem with SSH, kernel panic, apache issues. I shut down the system and the next day Mozilla doesnt work, due to an unknown “segmentation fault” issue. Just one problem after another. This could be due to the fact im moderately new to linux, however if im not logged in as root and everything seems to be working fine before i shut it down, it should be working fine when i turn it back on. But thats not always the case.
If you are new to linux and want an easy to use linux OS i would chose Mandrake, but if i had to run a time/mission critial server, mandrake would not be my choice.
Exactly!
Actually… well.. what is it that you just said again?
I meant that Mandrake is a senior player in this market, but their competitive egde is going *poof*.
I gathered that much. Well whatever distro/licenced windows upgrade you perfer its market value/competitive egde/paradigim/neo cool factor/fill in the blank must be going poof also….
I picked mandrake 9.0 as myt first Linux distro because it is free and I had heard that it was newb friendly. I found mandrake easier to install than windows, but that it was a little buggy. For example, the first time I installed it, it didn’t boot to KDE, my GUI of choice for linux. At the time, I had never used linux befroe and didn’t know any commands; so I reinstalled mandrake, the second time getting a GUI. After about a week of smooth runnings, I hit the first bug: the userdrake app seized to function; apparently due to a text file that had been created when I had used it previously. I tried to delete this file, but even as root, I couldn’t do it. Much better than what I would expect for a free OS, and I have decided tro try some other distrobutions.
I used Mandrake from version 6.0 to version 9.0 and finally gave up. I kept hoping it would get better, but when 9.0 required me to dump XFree86 in order to get reasonable font display, and after only being able to run Q3A on one Mandrake release – 8.1 I believe – I gave up. I’ve run Debian, RedHat, and SuSE in the past or currently and I honestly would take any one of these over Mandrake any day. Sorry Mandrake, but ‘Drake looks like a high school computer class project compared to other distros.
its really amazing to listen to people complain.
Mandrake is the distro that has always given to
the people. by this i mean a free version has always
been available. Mandrake will not rip off KDE for
its own benefit like red hat did. its a shame what
red hat did and its even more of a shame how people
that state they are for freedom rally around them.
and another thing i find interesting is how people
read some bad pr that is put out against Mandrake
and then repeat it like its the Gospoel
an example
Mandrake was the best distro but now has lost its edge.
this is ridiculous. if u dont want Mandrake then by
all means dont buy it, but please do u have to rattle
off every clechie u hear. come on.
Mandrake has a Mandrake Club where thousand sof people
are joining in and helping and getting involved in the
future of Mandrake. does red hat have this. of course
not. red hat will do as they please and so many of u
that scream about freedom and thenjust follow without giving any thought to other people.
dont be so grouchy. enjoy Linux whatever version u get,
but lets stop the slamming of each other. its makes
us all look like we have no value.
be more human and less savage.
I was traditionally a windows user, but wanted to give something new a try. I saw a nice screenshot of Linux in a magazine, so I thought I’d try it. Of course Mandrake at the time seemed to be the most simple to get working, and it has been simple.
Now I’m not your average user, but I was able to set Mandrake up easily, and now I am quite proficient in it. I’m even using it to set up a home network for myself (Server and Client). I’ve slowly learned the new features, and have grown to love them (Virtual Desktops, Customisable shortcut keys etc.)
Tonight I type this from a windows machine, (My motherboard on my Linux Box died, so I have to use a friends computer), and I realise just how much better Linux really is. The only area were Windows really outperforms Linux is in boot times. Other than that I’m left hoping to get Linux up and running again ASAP.
This is true. People have been complaining about mandrake all the time, i have been running Mandrake for the past two years no big problems i ever have and i use the download version. Bugs all Linux have this problem, because you can’t install correctly the software doesn’t means the overall thing is really bad.
Linux Mandrake is really good…
Don’t be so pessimist, try it until you get it right.
“The only area were Windows really outperforms Linux is in boot times.”
Huh? My slackware Linux server (k6-2 500) boots to the login prompt in under 12 seconds, and that includes the memory POST.
My Windows 2000 machine (also a K6-2 500) takes about 30.
Windows has always taken a long time to boot, unless you freshly install win98 from scratch without installing any apps. Mandrake is a great distro, I have been using it for about 2 years and it rocks, No problems at all in multiple pcs.