It could be made lighter, if one wanted a serious gaming only box. In fact, it is rumored that the VL team is looking into doing just such. I've had no problems other than the accompanying kernel source not compiling. Mandrake 8.0, as far as I'm concerned, is now the benchmark against which other distributions will be measured. In the last few years, desktop-oriented Linux distributions have exploded, with increasingly simpler installation and configuration routines and a slate of productivity apps.
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