https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/mandrake/Recent content in Mandrake onhttps://geekyschmidt.com/2009/11/05/mandriva-linux-2010-is-a-hot-mess/Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:28:01 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/2009/11/05/mandriva-linux-2010-is-a-hot-mess/<p>Real quick review of the desktop in pro’s and con’s</p> <ul> <li>Pro’s <ul> <li>Installer is pretty and well laid out</li> <li>Theme extends across all 3 supported desktops (lxde, KDE, and GNOME)</li> <li>Administration utilities use native toolkits for each platform unlike YaST from SuSE</li> </ul> </li> <li>Con’s <ul> <li>Why wouldn’t you use network-manager rather than your cheesy control center tool I first used in Mandrake 6.1 or 7?</li> <li>The default KDM theme reminds me of the old Solaris days, doesn’t match the feel of the desktop</li> <li>GTK theme seems like a cut-n-paste from QT side and it isn’t pretty</li> <li>Beagle search rather than Tracker? Not starting a mono war here, but beagle is NO where near feature filled</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>Seems to me that they took the bits and pieces from around the world and bundled it together. Problem is the bits they took were from the crappy bucket. Mandriva, I loved you back during the Red Hat vs. Mandrake days were you pushed the technology and ease of use for Linux. Now you just seem washed up.</p>