Mandrake was the first Linux distro that I tried and liked a lot. It was a newbie friendly enough distro back then and I still hear (and read) about it these days. Although now it is called Mandriva. LinuxCrunch talks about the 20 new features of Mandriva 2010.

New design for the installer.
Live upgrade
Moblin desktop
Guest accounts
3G features request
Better wireless support
Easier wifi key setup
Better boot time
Better rpmdrake start up speed
Urpmi media auto configuration
Better user information in rpmdrake
Better Drakguard
Better krandr
OpenOffice.org 3.1 and KDE 4 integration
gcc 4.4
Improved diskdrake
GNOME 2.28
KDE 4.3.2
Nepomuk integration
Plymouth boot splash

I really liked it that the installer of Mandrake give us …read more

This is a question I’d like to ask you whether you’ve been using a Linux distro for only a couple of days or maybe many years.  I suppose that there are still things that we can’t do properly on many Linux distros.  Are you contented or are you still bothered by what’s missing?
Is there something that you’ve been used to that you miss?  I suppose that you’ve been using Windows for a long time now, then the Linux distros would look quite differrent for you because … well, they are.  It’s as simple as that, really.  But if you’re trying …read more