Mandrake 9.0

[James Conner]

Well, I've been running it for about a month, shortly after release.  I ran 
W3.1 prior to that.  I can say that I like what I see so far.  The install 
went pretty smooth.  Initial setup was decent.  I had to install Realplayer8, 
Flash, pine, java runtime(it installs some watered down version), 
kdeartwork(for screensavers and stuff), and a few other miscellaneous things.  
Most of what I installed was in binary rpm format and available on either 
contrib, texstar or plf's ftp sites.  Installing via rpm can be done with 
either urpmi(from any ftp site or one of the cdroms), or traditional rpm 
commands.  Also there is a gui for both.  Since both update the rpm database, 
they compliment each other.  Only problems I've read about on the mailing 
lists is that it doesn't setup zip drives on install properly and a few other 
hardware problems(mostly video).  Personally, I'd recommend it to a newbie.  
It is a pretty good distro for a x.0 release.  I was apprehensive at first, 
but after using it for a while, I am really liking it.  For those that don't 
like KDE, it offers Gnome, xfce, blackbox, fvwm, and others.
Do you have any specific questions about it?  If so, I'll try to answer to the 
best of my ability.

Jim

On Sunday October 27, 2002 04:49 am, Pam R wrote:
> Any reports, impressions?