Igor Izyumin wrote:
On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:23 pm, Brad Chamberlin wrote:I wanted to point out to everyone the OSNews review here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1954 harshly true and to the point...
95% of that review is simply opinion. Yes, she likes SuSE better, although that doesn't mean that it's a better distro (Yast reminds me of how Windows
Though it doesn't sound that way from reading it, RedHat, Suse, and Mandrake, all received scores between 7 and 8, which implies not much of a difference. I have never been harsh at Mandrake, but this review did make me angry about Mandrake QA, especially how long it takes to fix major bugs (sometimes years).
Though 99% was whining and rather pointless, e.g. most of the reviews of RedHat 8.0 that I've seen *complained* about the unified thing, but now all of a sudden it's a good thing and Mandrake should have it too? That said, some points are extemely valid.
1.) xfs support (with no ext2 /boot parition). I just reported this recently, and have reported it ever since xfs support went in versions ago.
2.) the infamous mouse-wheel problem. WHy does it happen only on install? And there is a way to fix it by switching out of X and then back in, or something like that. It's not like the install is *definately* over at that point. Even still, rpmdrake should work without a mouse. It does not. If you have no mouse or the mouse wheel goes crazy, you won' be able to get past the install packages stage.
These two bother be the most, since I reported these at least over a year ago, and they are very serious bugs, which seem to be ignored time and time again.
3.) mandrake control center. This thing never works for me. All applications crash or hang. The new version definitely looks better, but so what if it doesn't work. Eugenia may have a point about these old gtk (actually perl) programs not fitting in well with the rest of the OS.
4.) login problems. Could this be because LDAP is enabled but the network or ldap is not up and running? mandrkae has poor support for this feature.
5.) anti-aliased fonts. RedHat's xft2 support might be the way to go, and this should be looked at for 9.1.
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Sincerely,
David Walluck
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