[Tech] Una recensione di MandrakeLinux 10 Release Candidate

L'autore della software review, Ross M. Greenberg, non nasconde certo il suo entusiasmo:

Frankly, it's close to prime-time, but not quite ready for a corporation to bet the enterprise on yet. My advice: wait a few months for the official release, then grab it and install it.



Playing with pre-release copies of Mandrakelinux 10.0, I must give it an enthusiastic thumbs-up. It's a sweet release, looking like it will be as much at home in the corporate enterprise as on the gamer's PC. Assuming the actual release of Mandrakelinux 10.0 doesn't really hold any surprises (although that's never a safe bet) here's what to expect:



The software is fast, even on slow hardware. My test system was a real clunker, an AMD K2/500 MHz/384 MB/40 GB/7200 RPM disk. But despite the underpowered hardware, Mandrakelinux 10.0 screamed. This PC is so slow and unresponsive under Windows XP (news - web sites) that I had to keep checking to be sure it hadn't crashed, but under Mandrakelinux 10.0 it was so responsive it felt like it was reading my mind.



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Mandrake10 includes Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 and XFree86 4.4, both of the latter still in beta.



The final version of Mandrake10, the company says, will include support for more users and apps per server, better installation and configuration procedures, more recognized hardware, better Office compatibility, and more bundled applications. Many of these enhancements can be seen in the latest release of the Cooker,. The Cooker has been renamed to the "Mandrake 10 Community" release, with support for more powerful hardware: including up to 4 GB of memory, and 16-processor systems.



But wait, there's more: better Samba, MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, security, network printing and development tools. All of this is expected in the official release.



Or so MandrakeSoft claims.



When the product is officially released, we'll know. We'll review it. We'll let you know.

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