A Month later with Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official

Never been that big of a Mandrake fan myself. Still, I think that this article regarding Mandrake Linux 10.1 is worth a read. Some of the areas that are covered here include usage, installation and the benefits of the office apps.

A special thanks goes out to www.linuxcentral.com for providing the Mandrake 10.1 Official Club Edition CD’s/DVD to linux forums for review.

Introduction
Since my review of Mandrake 10.1 Community I have updated my laptop to Mandrake 10.1 Official. I was so impressed with the community edition that I also changed my home server from Ubuntu 4.1 to Mandrake 10.1 Official. I’ve been using it on both boxes for about a month now. I’ve attempted to put together a thorough review of my experiences using Mandrake 10.1 Official on both of them fro your reading pleasure.

Installation
There’s little change in the installation since Mandrake 10.1 Community. In all honesty, I think Mandrake has one of the best installers of any Linux distribution that I’ve tried. Besides being easy to use and having nice looking graphical interface, two features that new Linux users will find comforting, it also has one of the best hard drive partitioners I’ve come across, a feature that many advanced user will take delight in. One thing of particular interest to note is the easy of use that the PowerPack DVD provides. Rather then having to mess around with six or so CD’s I can simply pop in one DVD to install anything. This is an extremely nice feature if you plan on doing any fiddling with your system.

Usage
I use my computer for the same basic things that almost everyone does. When I’m not busy tweaking it, programming for fun or trying to get my server to perform better, I mostly do a little work from home, surf the net, check my e-mail, listen to music, occasionally play a game or two and try my hand at digital photography. This is where my Pentium III, Compaq Armada m700 laptop comes in. I do all these things using this computer exclusively, as I can do them from any location in my home thanks to its portability and wireless technology.