Day Six with Mandrake 10.0

In light of Redhat droping support for RH9 and neither being willing to buy a software subscription, nor switch over to Fedora, I decided it was time to switch to another distro. As is the case with the reason I ended up with Redhat to begin with, there was someone in my community that was pushing a distro that seemed to fit for me. I decided a while ago that I wanted a more desktop centric distro and Mandrake 10 appeared to fit the bill. This is a beta version and I have run into a few problem with patching and my sound card with some apps, but I have been very happy otherwise. Mandrake forked from the Redhat code several years ago but it feels enough like Redhat that I was able to make the jump without too much hassle. I did have to be root several times to get specific applications to install correctly, but these packages were not upto being 1.0 releases so I'm not suprised. I will say that even though Mandrake 10 is still in beta testing, it fits together a lot better the RH9 which always felt a little klunky.