Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 23, 2004 06:31 PM
Having seen 9.0 in action and having tried 9.2, I'd say that the good things (nice desktop, decent partitioning tools) are outweighed by the bad things. For example, even Red Hat 7.3 handles my USB hardware more or less properly, whereas Mandrake 9.2 detects my CD-RW drive but then not only fails to let it work with kscd, but it makes it virtually unusable to every other program in the system. Experience with 9.0 would suggest that they aren't likely to fix such stuff any time soon, if ever, whereas Red Hat were at least responsive to various USB issues which, admittedly, they managed to introduce in certain kernel updates.
Better hardware support is really needed across the board for Linux, and Mandrake do at least seem to be more progressive than other vendors at getting stuff certified, and I'd even pay a reasonable fee to subscribe to a distro which worked properly with my hardware. The problem is that even though the Mandrake Club exists, I have little confidence that Mandrake could deliver the goods.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 23, 2004 06:31 PMBetter hardware support is really needed across the board for Linux, and Mandrake do at least seem to be more progressive than other vendors at getting stuff certified, and I'd even pay a reasonable fee to subscribe to a distro which worked properly with my hardware. The problem is that even though the Mandrake Club exists, I have little confidence that Mandrake could deliver the goods.
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