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This is the biggest piece of crap imaginable. I've installed it on 3 platforms. A dual 450MHz P3 a dual 733MHz P3 and an IBM Laptop (366MHz) and on all three it is slow and buggy. X apps randomly close themselves the install is buggy and had to be reapplied on the laptop 3 times before I got through it error free. I use Libranet and Slackware most commonly but have used RedHat 7.3 and a number of the SuSEs (left due to non standard config tools). None of these other distros had the install bugs or the performance problems I've experienced with Mandrake 9.0. I really didn't like 8.2 so I'm probably biased but this is a new low and has guaranteed I won't be trying Mandrake again anytime soon. Especially after paying for this crap. This distro is a black mark against open source if I've ever seen one, I hope they get the next release right because I really believed they would be the only ones capable of fighting off RedHat's bastardization of the OS.

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