I've recently upgraded to Mandrake 8.0 and I LOVE it.  

I'm running it on a dual OS boot though, with Win98 (XP scares me but
that's a different topic).   Why?

I find myself booting into windows for only TWO things anymore:

playing games (WINE has potential but isn't there quite yet)
working with PoVray

I'm not an experienced user with Linux yet so I still find it much easier
to boot into windows and use the provided GUI editor there.  I read
somewhere that an X gui editor for pov may be included in a future
release and so I am posting this...  Such a thing would give me (and many
others) one less reason to use MS products at all.  It would not only
impact the pov *nix users of the world but would help to influence the
desktop OS revolution in general, albeit not in a big way but every
user-friendly app that makes it's way into *nix is one more step in the
right direction (IMHO).  Tried running Blender yet under *nix?!?!?!
YUCK!

--October

"In a world without walls who needs gates or windows?"

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