The Mandrakelinux Updates Applet

Posted Jan 7, 2005 11:32 UTC (Fri) by grantingram (guest, #18390)
Parent article: Mandrakelinux 10.1 on AMD64

Clearly if the reviewer doesn't know what they are reviewing I can't help feeling that the whole thing is a bit suspect!

Still being in the dark ages of the 32 bit world I can't comment on Mandrake's 64 bit offerings but a couple of points about the "Mandrakelinux Updates Applet":

All the applet does is tell you when updates are available. When you ask it to update all it does is run the Update Module in the Mandrake Control Centre.
You can get the update applet thingy to work for less than a silver club membership. You can get it for twenty euros a year.
Whether it's worth twenty euros or not is a completely different question!

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The Mandrakelinux Updates Applet

Posted Jan 17, 2005 19:16 UTC (Mon) by Zach (guest, #27327) [Link]

This review was fine and brings up a lot of valid points. Granted its obvious the reviewer wasn't a regular Mandrake user, but I don't see why that should be a problem.

I've been using Mandrake since 7.0 and know it pretty damn well. Since 10.1 I've been back to using the 32-bit version because of my experience with the 10.0 x86_64 version.

The fact is, Mandrake's x84_64 offerings are more buggy and *more restrictive* then I find acceptable.

Mandrake is dropping the ball and I hope that they are able to see this sooner then later. The other x84_64 offerings are not yet competitive with Mandrakes overall robustness, but the margin is certainly shrinking.

If there was a distro right now that had a similar amount of polish and mature configuration tools with a less bug riddled x84_64 version available I switch in a heartbeat.

In fact it was because of the 10.0 x84_64 debacle that I dropped my Club account (standar memeber).