[wellylug] Mandrake 9.2 random review notes

[Jonathan Harker]

Like the releases before it, Mandrake 9.2 is a big improvement on the previous 
version. For testing I did a complete fresh install on a dual boot Windows 
machine.

Finally, a buch of hardware that I could only use in Windows now work flawlessly:

  * Firewire external hard disk
  * Assorted USB pendisks and MP3 player
  * Lone IDE hard disk on a Fasttrack RAID controller

I suspect this is mainly due to the newer kernel.

Start up and shutdown now have snazzy progress bar screens like Windows XP. 
This is not a feature for us tech-heads, but it's really nice for Uncle Bill 
or Jane the receptionist. That's really where a lot of the improvement lies in 
this release - the version numbers of things like Mozilla, KDE, and Gnome 
haven't gone up by much, but work has gone into the details. Mandrake are 
aiming squarely at the workstation/desktop with 9.2

If you want, you can post me 6 blank (700MB) CDs and I can post you back three 
of them with 9.2, as long as I don't get inundated...!   :-)

Cheers,
Jonathan.