Mandrake 10.1 Community Released 209
MohammedSameer writes "Mandrakesoft released MandrakeLinux 10.1 Community, As usual it's only available first to the club members
The new release features Kernel 2.6.8.1, Xorg-X11 6.7, KDE 3.2.3 with 3.3 as an install option,"
Does it matter? (Score:5, Insightful)
Does this actually matter? How many Madrake Users get their ISO's from Mandrake anyway? Torrents will probably have 10.1 within the day.
Club membership (Score:5, Insightful)
Point being, don't try this out as a stable release. Only try it if you have time to kill and really want to see what Mandrake has done with their release this far. Otherwise, wait for the Official ISOs when they become availible to the public.
Re:Does it matter? (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally I don't use Mandrake (nothing against them), but there could be other benefits to being in the club.
Former MDK user... (Score:4, Insightful)
I used to enjoy seeing what they 'smoothed out' over the prev release. The MDK Club turned me off as Deno started getting stinky about support for 'non-users' but I understand they're just trying to make a dollar (or euro in their case).
Regardless, nice to see a major Linux Distro still in the running.
CCBB
Re:Gentoo (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Former MDK user... (Score:4, Insightful)
You obviously never used urpmi. Probably, that old Mandrake had no urpmi.
Think of urpmi as apt-get. And you get GUI and text-based front-ends.
urpmi is native to Mandrake, and this is a big reason to use Mandrake.
See http://www.urpmi.org for more information.
Also, MDK lately comes all compiled with the prelink option, and with i586 optimization.
Peace!
Re:Gentoo (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm curious what tools you're referring to. I'm far from any expert on any distro, but I've never had a problem dumping out to a console window, su'ing to root, and tweaking the odd config file by hand (mainly in that I still don't understand where some things are at in the mdk gui tools ; seems like I always have to hand-edit
Mod parent down, it's basically spam. (Score:4, Insightful)
You want the new Mandrake NOW NOW NOW? You've got six choices:
1) Get a club membership. You get tons of apps prepackaged as Mandrake RPMs and dedicated mirrors, too.
2) Make a friend with someone who already has a club membership. Nothing wrong with making copies of the CDs.
3) Learn the art of patience, and wait for the general release.
4) Download the current Cooker. It's gonna be essentially the same.
5) Download the sources and compile it yourself. Pain in the butt, but no one ever said the GPL means they have to provide you binaries, only source.
6) Pay these guys $6.99 to download the images from them. Please note: This option will automatically make you an asshat.