It's unfair to make a sweeping conclusion on a Linux distribution so soon but I was struck dumb at the Mageia 3 KDE release. Perhaps it's because I haven't tried a KDE 4.x release ever since I realized I would always choose openSUSE as my default KDE distribution, but I have to admit the trim KDE 4.10 and the revamped Mageia 3 is a pretty impressive combination.
There are a few application choices to the default application set of the Mageia 3 KDE that seemed odd: an iBUS Hangul Preferences utility (someone's been watching too many K-Pop videos), DigiDoc tools for signing documents online, and a related ID card utility. Thankfully, the Mageia developers left out the KDE games, KOrganizer, KMail, and other KDE applications I normally have to uninstall from an openSUSE KDE system.
Apper, the RPM package manager I griped about in openSUSE KDE, is included though I intend to give the utility the benefit of the doubt this time. I'm interested in finding out if it will play well with Mageia's update system and the Mageia team's improvements to urpmi. After setup, my running the Mageia update utility showed no available updates (very unusual on a first run). However, running Apper merited a substantial number of updates.
It would take me a few months of regular use to get a full idea of how well Mageia 3 performs. However, first impressions for the KDE release are pretty good (which is not saying a lot when it comes to Linux distributions). In particular, I was happy that there were no repository or urpmi errors while installing Grsync, Sigil, Fontforge, and Chromium using Mageia Control Center.
Stay tuned for more observations and mayhap a more comprehensive review of Mageia 3.
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