Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download 336
joestar writes "The new Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community has just showed up on Mandrake's FTP mirrors and through Bittorrent. MandrakeClub Members benefit from extra CDs downloads and even a DVD ISO for Corporate Memberships! Another good news for the Mandrake community is an announce from Mandrakesoft that due to the stock resumed trading on Euronext on last Monday, with a nice increase of +10.00% in three days." Update: 03/11 06:23 GMT by T : Cheap ISOs are also available from merchants like OSDisc.com and CheapBytes.
Trouble with traditional distros (Score:2, Interesting)
kernel 2.6.4 out soon (not as big a deal)
Gnome 2.6 out soon
OpenOffice 1.1.1 out soon
KDE 3.2.1 out now
Gimp 2.0 out soon
etc, etc, etc.
It's hard to make a "splash" when the code is so old!
What's the legal status of the DVD? (Score:2, Interesting)
I mean, great most of Linux is GNU but doesn't Mandrake include some proprietary pieces that would make distributing it to us random hackers illegal, or is the restriction just caused by bandwidth considerations?
Re:What's the legal status of the DVD? (Score:3, Interesting)
Mandrake's been great but... (Score:4, Interesting)
In the meantime, that former Cooker system is compiling the kernel for a LiveCD / i686 Stage 3 Gentoo 2004.0 install. I look forward to seeing just how different these 2 distros are to use on a daily basis. (Save any stage 1 for real performance comments. I did that back when 1.4 was released and didn't want to sit around so long again.)
Re:SuSE Linux (Score:4, Interesting)
> SuSE Linux installs more easily,
That's in the eye of the beholder, but I'm happy with the Mandrake 10.0 install process. The only problem I have with it is the configuration of wireless cards in that it's fairly complicated as compared to others.
> has a few nice mods to KDE (including recently used programs' links, ALA Windows XP style)
IIRC, that's standard in KDE 3.2+. The Mandrake 10.0 distro that I'm running right now has the "Most Used Applications" as well as "Recently Used Programs." I don't think that's a SuSE-only mod.
> and has YaST, a package installer GUI for rpms.
urpmi, and the gui of it, gurpmi, as well as rpmdrake and mandrakeupdate. IMHO, it doesn't get easier than clicking on it through the mandrake control center.
> YaST also functions to easily change configurations for NICs, displays, TV tuner cards, and more.
I've been able to change from my display on my laptop to my tv screen flawlessly. Also, Mandrake appears to be able to handle a change of my hardware without blinking, provided that it is of course, supported. I don't think that it's a distro thing, much more than a kernel/module thing.
Now, I'm not here to play the "My distro can beat up your distro" game, but let's not imply that SuSE can do all of these things, and Mandrake can't
The Open Digital Divide? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yes, unlike most people, I'm still on a 56K dial-up connection.
so sometimes I find myself waiting for so-and-so releases to be available on a magazine CD before I do the 'upgrades', and we're talking about weeks if not months.
I'm wondering if there are others who are in the similar 56K boat like myself, and feel that another group is slowly pulling away from me.
Re:KDE 3.2! (Score:5, Interesting)
Pros for KDE -->
- Wallet - makes storing passwords for KDE apps & websites secure and easy to manage.
- Konquerer - has tabbed browsing and other modern browser features, IE does not have these.
- Juk - great playlist based music player -- What does XP come with? Media Player? no thanks.
- Windows can be "shaded", "always on top", borders removed, made to fill the entire screen, etc.. kinda nice IMHO..
- Advanced keybindings
- KDE-wide spell check
- Advanced, built in editors such as Quanta, Kate, etc..
- Great multi-client IM (Kopete)
- OpenPGP encryption integration -- works great with Kopete, Kontact, etc..etc..
- Virtual desktops, fine-tuning over multi-monitor setups, etc..
- IMHO, great print subsystem (kprinter/cups) -- certains aspects of W2k/XP seemed umm.. hacked on (ie usb printer setups)
- Nice to look at Window decoration & widgets (plastik)
- User-level font management control -- I don't think XP has this (only global fonts)
- flexible sized panels (kicker/taskbar) -- make as many as you want, have them wherever you want, what size you want, etc...
- kioslaves -- use of fish:/ is awesome -- utilize remote servers via SSH as if they were local file systems..
- General responsiveness and speed seems better than XP -- XP seems to umm.. delay quite a bit for no apparent reason (ie 10-15 seconds or more at a time)
Of course, these are just some of the things I like about KDE over XP
10.0 (Score:3, Interesting)
10 years from now will we have SuSE 24.2?
I guess numbers mean squat to me anymore.
Please explain Mandrake Club! (Score:2, Interesting)
of 10.0 being available to club members. So
I signed up and they charged my credit card
and haven't sent me my account/password. They
are also ignoring my emails. The FAQ states
they will send a login and password within
an hour if order via credit card. Am I missing
something here? Their site is horrible IMHO, to
difficult to find anything useful.
How is the Serial ATA support? (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm using a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 Plus @ 160 GB. The mainboard is a Abit IS7 and I *think* the SATA controller is from SiliconImage.
When I recently tried out Knoppix, the entire OS (or at least the GUI) froze whenever I tried to access the auto-detected hard drive. However, it's based on 2.4.x and I have a feeling it was due to my SATA drive and lack of controller support.
I'm relatively new to Linux after a longish break, but was thinking about picking up on it again. But I don't really want to start by messing around with SATA drivers, as it seems to be both a rather complex task for a newbie and a risky task too, as I'm dealing with low-level stuff that I fear could corrupt data if done wrong.