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    Mandrake 10

    Anybody got the community version of Mandrake 10 yet?

    I've just about finished (96%) getting it from the torrent seed on Mandrake's site.

    It uses kernel 2.6 and I'm hoping that it is better than Fedora.
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    Well, I've noted two things I don't like about it already, oh no, three things.

    1. It uses LILO
    2. It can't read the partition table on drives properly (not the two I tried it on anyway - had to let it do away with all partition data and start a fresh)
    3. No Silicon Image SATA RAID support.

    Still, I'm sure once the community has given their feedback the public (is that what they'll call it?) version will be somewhat better tuned.
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    In (my own) personal opinion, Mandrake is rubbish.

    Well, it's good, but it just holds your hand like Windows does, it's rubbish if you want to get the whole "linux" feel

    On a binary distro I believe Debian or even Fedora are pretty decent alternatives.
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    Well, I thought I'd try it seeing as though another version was out.

    I must say I already prefer Fedora because it gives me more control over setup than Mandrake, whilst not being over complex. I can use Linux but I aren't exactly a guru, lol.

    I guess Fedora Core2 will be the upgrade for my current distro (Fedora Core1.)

    MEPIS or Gentoo on my other comp me thinks.
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    I notice the three ISO's for V10 are up at www.linuxiso.org

    I'll be d/l them overnight, one at a time, over the next three nights and give it a try.

    I'll agree that Mandrake isn't a 'pure' Linux experience but I don't think it's rubbish, I'd say it's a good introduction, at least you can use the thing straight out of the box as an alternative to Windows.

    And you can still use the text console to tinker. A good starting point, until you feel ready to give something like Slackware a try, imo.

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