This is probably silly to do on the eve of the release of Mandrake 10.1, but there are some things that really get my goat when using version 10.0. I’ve been using it as my main desktop since it was released, so I’ve got a pretty good impression of what it is like. Read on if you’re interested in using it but haven’t tried it yet, or if you want to hear about some of the negative points of using Mandrake. I’m sure that most distributions have thier good and bad points - I won’t discuss the good (since I wouldn’t be using it if I didn’t like the good parts), just the bad!

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You’re probably one of the many people in this world that has wondered exactly how to get to the Meilerhütte. Or not. In any case, I’m going to relate a little bit of my experience from the hike there and back (there being the Meilerhütte, back being my car). I’m not sure that I can tell you anything useful, except that I decided that King Ludwig II was probably gay, and hiking through the mountains in the fog is probably a lot more fun than you think. Read the rest of this entry »