![]() I Changed some settngs in the login manager and made it show ‘root’ on the login prompt. I had to click on the name ‘manish’ but this time it did ask for the password. On logging out, it showed the login prompt but there was no place where I could enter username. I thought I’ll just logout and maybe I’ll get to see the login prompt. But I wanted to login as root to do some onetime settings. When I booted for the first time, the system automatically logged me in as ‘manish’. I had created one normal user account ‘manish’ during install. Though it mounted my USB harddisk also by itself, it did not read the volume information from that and instead named it as win_c3. Infact I keep a copy of fstab in a separate partition which I use after installing a new distro. Not only the system automatically mounted all of them under /mnt but get this, it created all the mount points by reading the volume labels of the partitions! I was awesome. The second harddisk has four partitions with volume I have two harddisks, first one containing just the OSes and the second one containing songs, docs, videos etc. I wonder how would it be when pre-linking is enabled. and these shared drives are FAT32, something Windows is supposed to specialize in. Sometime I got the creepy feeling that the system was anticipating my mouse movements and bringing up the screens even before I could click! The directory listing of same shared drives (songs etc) was coming up much faster than it was in Windows XP. Even though lot of RAM (640 MB DDR) and new Kernel/KDE/XFree86 helps but it certainly is much much faster than Redhat 9 and Windows XP on the same hardware. ![]() One of the first thing that hits you when you login is the responsiveness of the system. Even though there is a folder called ‘advertising”, it just contains Mandrake’s own promotional ads. No third party ads were displayed during the install. I had chosen ext3 as the filesystem and the whole install process took about half an hour. Not a big deal though but I am used to it from my Redhat days. While installing individual packages, the installer does not show the package version number. ![]() I chose Hindi as one additional language and the installer offered to install ‘Devanagiri’ keyboard layout. The install process itself is essentially same as before. Otherwise the installer won’t be able to find them. and while busting second iso, make sure that the rpms from this image are extracted in a folder called RPMS2 under ‘Mandrake’ directory. Note that the installer expects names like hda5 while asking for the package location. Chose ‘harddisk install’ method and pointed the installer to the place where the packages were lying. Booted using the boot floppy just created. Pointed it to the directory called ‘image’ and chose ‘hdcdrom_usb.img’. Then inserted a floppy and double clicked on ‘rawwritewin.exe’ in directory ‘dosutils’. First thing I did was to bust the iso files using winrar. ![]() I did not want burn the iso images to the CDs so I chose to install directly from the harddisk. So let’s see if it is worth drooling over. And as there are bound to be lot of bugs in this kind of release, I’ll be concentrating more on the usability aspect. This release comes on only two CDs so some of the packages are missing. Its just something put together to show what we can expect from Mandrake 10.0. Please note that this release is not a beta release. This article refers to cooker snapshot as of December 31, 2003. With Kernel 2.6, KDE 3.2 beta and XFree86 4.4 beta, it doesn’t leave much to be desired. Mandrake Linux 10.0-preview edition pretty much defines the shape of things to come in Linux land in 2004. ![]()
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