wow! i just upgraded from mandrake 8.2(or 8.1 i cant remember) to 9.0, and i must say this is bloody good stuff indeed!
i try different versions of linux occasionaly & even *BSD, but when i first used mandrake a few years ago i fell in love!
mandrake 9.0 is A LOT better than i expected!
usually when you upgrade an OS, its a bit more bloated, a bit slower, and doesnt add all that much that is worthy of it being an upgrade
but mandrake 9.0 was different
it installed very quickly(from 2 CDs) without a problem, it booted very quickly, much quicker than the previous version, and just about every thing seemed faster
KDE 3.0 was new for me, before i used it i thought it would be bloated & slow, but it was actually very fast! my computer almost seems like a whole new machine
you know if you have a very small amount of ram, you get that disk 'thrashing' when the machine is constantly swapping pages of memory in & out? well upgrading to mandrake 9.0 was almost like adding more ram! my HDD is so silent now, ive yet to checkout the memory usage but it seems to be swapping a lot less now, probably not ALL due to KDE however
there were a few new features/programs that i liked, plus some things changed that i didnt like, but i suppose youve got to take the good with the bad
one thing i really like is the Mandrake Control Center - this makes so many things much easier to configure, including the screen resolution
this upgrade has fixed so many problems ive had before, so many errors and crashes that i dont have now
for anyone wanting to try linux i would definently reccomend mandrake 9.0 to anyone
if you already use linux, try it now!
its really good stuff
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