hmm, I've installed the downloadable version of 8.2 myself and am *fully* satisfied.
Before installing, I was a little bit scared due to some "less enthusiastic" postings on this list, but I finally had no choice (my harddisk surrendered a couple of days ago ...). The article itself is IMHO not too bad, really. It just tells the same truth that I've seen for many other distros around these days. Creating a distribution is a "not so easy" thing to do and maintaining it is even harder. The fact that mandrake has lacks in some places (among the many great things) is just "natural". And compared to other distros, kernel compilation from source using "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" is for example *very* different from the original kernel sources at some points (without good reason, IMHO) and that is a point that I fully agree on with the author. QA is the answer to all those things, but in that part the people at mandrake in general make a much better job than most of their competitors, so just don't take bad reviews too bad ... udo
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