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Saw over PCLinuxOnline that Open for Business has published a review on Mandrake Linux 9.0



This is a critical review of the installation and actual performance of the Mandrake Linux 9.0 Download Edition distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. The review focused on three main areas: (1)Installation and setup; (2) Operation and system administration; and (3) Performance. The review will conclude with a general evaluation and will assign grades on relevant areas.

The review was done on a laptop system equipped with the AMD K6-2 processor operating at 500 MHz, with 192 MB of system RAM, 6.0 GB of hard disk space, a motherboard using the VIA 8266 chipset (including the sound chip) and a Trident CyberBlade AGP video chip using 4MB of system RAM as video RAM. The display is an 800x600 passive matrix display panel.
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