Mandrake Revisited: A Lycoris user revisits the OS he left years earlier (DesktopOS.com)
DesktopOS.com has a review
of Mandrake 10.2 Limited Edition. "
Several years ago, Linux desktops were not very refined. Mandrake seemed to be the best of the bunch, with a nearly usable desktop. I held out hope that it would become the best desktop Linux, since it seemed so far ahead of the competition. But as time went on, they kept releasing buggy software, and by version 8.2, the system I had was clunky and slow; the menu was cluttered with broken programs. Overall I found it to be unstable and unusable. I gave up on Mandrake and chose Lycoris DLX instead, as it seemed a better, more functional desktop environment with more promise."