Mandrake Linux 9.2 Hits the Street

joestar writes "Just announced at Mandrake's website, Mandrake 9.2 (FiveStar) has just been released. Mandrake Club members get full access to 9.2 ISOs (through BitTorrent), as well as... all 9.2 contributors and translators. But the best news, in addition to all (impressive) 9.2 features is that everybody can access the traditional binary & sources tree! Public release of Mandrake 9.2 ISOs will happen at the same time as Mandrake 9.2 Pack availability in retail. It makes sense."

Thanks..but nobody asked

[Anonymous Coward]

from the not-debian-but-pretty-good-anyway dept.

Michael, is it possible that you stop being a jackass once in a while?

We don't care that you love debian, what does it have to do with Mandrake?

Put that in your journal, stop trolling offtopic stuff in your stories.

Streets?

[bluegreenone]

If by "streets", you mean the gilded hard drive pathways of MandrakeClub's paying members, then yes, Mandrake 9.2 has hit the streets. For the majority of the public you're talking a release in 1-2 weeks.

Re:Spyware?

[djh101010]

You make technology decisions based on vague rememberings of something that you can't find evidence of?

Maybe you're thinking of the ads displayed during the install process rather than spyware? That's a pretty hefty accusation to be tossing around, even in a vaguely-worded statement such as yours.

Re:Why oh why is the user interface still so stale

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you serious? Or are you just trolling..
Anyway: There are many *high quality* themes for download on sites such as kde-look.org and art.gnome.org which offer themes that are IMHO *far* superior to the cludged, butt-ugly Luna theme Windows XP ships with. These include so-called meta-themes which provide the right images for Gnome and KDE apps, as well as apps with their own theming engine such as XMMS and Mozilla/Epiphany/Firebird/...

I personally prefer the nice and clean themes RedHat and Mandrake have been producing their last few releases over the 'round' Aqua buttons any day. When I see a new RedHat install I can correctly assume that the 'underscore'-button minimises the window, the 'box'-button resizes it and the cross closes it. I wouldn't know what the green-yellow-red buttons on Os X stand for.

On designing a UI: this *is* in fact not as easy as it seems, and certainly not as easy as designing a nice and clean website. Believe me, I have created some Linux themes, and have not yet released any of them to the public, simply because I don't think they're good enough.

Of course, you're always welcome to design your own theme and provide it to the community.

The irony of bittorrent

[vlad_petric]

As a MDK club member myself, I first applauded the measure to release first to us and then to everybody.

As I'm downloading it right now, I'm wondering however if releasing to everybody through bittorrent wouldn't have been a better choice, as that would imply faster downloads for club members as well ...