Mandrake = messed up?

[WMD]

I copied this from another forum:

 

quote:Maybe more people would take Mandrake seriously if they just got their shit together.

No more prerelease kernels, no more fucked up updates, no more broken GUI utilities that change interface every release.

I remember not long ago(less than a year, more than a few months) I recall hearing that Mandrake put out a kernel update that was screwed in the way that it ignored your umask setting, which gave every new file you created 777 permissions.

What a mess.

Is this accurate at all?

[preacher]

Its mostly all true, but all of the problems were fixed. There is no linux distro that is released without bugs, and since Mandrake has so many features that distros like slackware don't have, it is more bug prone.

If I remember correctly, Mandrake isn't the only distro to use a pre release kernel. Red Hat and Fedora both did this too. Also Suse had a broken gui utility a while back too.

Mandrake is an overall great distro, and has no more flaws than similar distros and the flaws are fixed quickly.

[WMD]

Ah.  The part about the pre-release kernel confused me, as Mandrake 9.2 seems to use a standard 2.4.22 one.

Reason I asked is because I'm getting a new computer soon and hope to run Mandrake on it.  

[preacher]

Well mandrake did use the pre release of 2.4.21 when 9.1 was released, and 9.2 includes the pre release of 2.6