Installed Mandrake PowerPack 10.0 on Dell Inspiron 4150.
Specs are <
Performed an “everything” install.
Allowed it to autopartition.
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 ext3 5.8G 3.5G 2.1G 64% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 ext3 31G 38M 31G 1% /home
The NIC – 3Com – was detected.
ATI Display card – with 1600 x 1200 – resolution worked fine.
GNOME worked fine !! which hadn’t worked under Slackware 10.0
Slackware used Gnome 2.4 – which was I guess the latest.
I installed Slack on 3 different machines and 2 different options – normal and expert, but still Gnome would not work. It would load the desktop but no background, Terminal would come up, but not Nautilus.
Wireless Card – Hotplug worked. Network config through the wizard worked fine.
Had to change the SSID for the WLAN.
Driver: Orinoco_cs
USB Mouse as well as the PS/2 touchpad both worked together and alone.
Battery Monitor – in Gnome – worked fine.
Shutting the lid, would put the system in standby and bring it back up without any problems.
Windowmaker, XFCE, all worked fine.
I had not installed KDE, so no idea about KDE.
Menus in MDK 10.0 are much much better than what I had seen in 9.2.
Much better organized, fewer options in each category.
Sound – worked out of the box – ALSA
(Donno the sound card, think it is AC’97)
Pleasant Surprise – Audacity was installed 
Also, Kdenlive was installed – havent had a chance to try it out.
CDROMs are automounted – nice, has been a MDK feature.
an icon appears on the desktop.
USB Drives – work …..although they do not automount. I suppose this
can be set in /etc/fstab.
Not so pleasant things:
XMMS was not installed 
Totem has such a stupid interface for Playlists.
Windows key not mapped to Gnome menu.