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Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official Has Arrived 20

Posted by timothy from the steady-improvement dept.
joestar writes "After 2 months of 10.1 Community polishing, Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official packs are now available for pre-ordering, but Mandrakeclub Members can already download these packs as CD or DVD ISO images. 10.1 Official provides improved hardware support, especially in the mobility area - with for instance full support of Intel Centrino-based laptops - as well as many other features. All in all, it's also certainly one of the most up-to-date Linux system currently available, and one of the most easy to use both for Linux beginners and Linux experts."
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Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official Has Arrived

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  • After a quick look at the features list (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Stevyn ( 691306 ) on Wednesday October 27, 2004 @11:23AM (#10643044)
    KDE is at version 3.2.3 and GNOME is at 2.6. Notice how they mention 3.3 is available, but only for people who join their club. They also mention how their packages have been optimized for speed. I'd like to see some benchmarks confirming this because I've found that Mandrake 10 was very slow compared to other distros I tried on the same machine.

    I don't want to troll on Mandrake because the features list also included some nice features for laptops, specifically ones that follow the Centrino specs.

    For someone who's considering switching to Mandrake 10.1, it's been my experience that while Mandrake 10 was easy to set up, it's slow and the packaging system is pretty slim and gets outdated soon if you don't pay for the membership. Though Fedora seems the opposite, very up to date packages, but things won't always work correctly out of the box (firewire) and their packaging system is very up to date.

    • Re:After a quick look at the features list (Score:5, Interesting)

      by aelbric ( 145391 ) on Wednesday October 27, 2004 @11:41AM (#10643337)
      I'm pretty impressed with Mandrake as a desktop distro, but I have to agree with your comments. I bought the "license" to keep myself up to date and to support their development. I especially like default support for the common desktop features that you see in that other O$.

      I can't see myself doing this for my servers though. Fedora has me pretty happy and RHEL is my choice for mission critical boxes. It doesn't support some of the more windows-like features out of the box (mp3, etc.) but it is rock solid and stable and that's all I need for a server. Updates come fast and furious if necessary as well. I want to have my servers at an N-1 patch level as quickly as we can manage it. If our regression testing is the holdup that's OK. If the provider is the holdup, that's not.

      I think a Mandrake front-end with a Fedora/RHEL back-end is where we will end up. Don't you love OS choice?
      • RHEL is my choice for mission critical boxes. It doesn't support some of the more windows-like features out of the box (mp3, etc.) but it is rock solid and stable and that's all I need for a server. This is not a flame or a troll: I am wondering is you have considered OpenBSD for servers. It is the most stable OS I have ever encountered. And secure. I'm just curious. RHEL is a great release and will no doubt cover your needs perfectly.
        • My guess is that RHEL is better and more quickly supported. Also, RPM updates are very nice, especially since they are certified to work on specific implementations of the OS and hardware.

          For me, I probably won't use OpenBSD (or any other BSD at this point) because I'm a little lazy and don't like having to build from scratch, or even use tarballs that may not work 100% right away, when the RPMs usually do.
    • Mandrake has an experimental distro as well, called 'Cooker'. It's usually very up to date and a bit unstable. (although at the moment, it has the same packages as the 10.1 Official release, i.e. KDE 3.2.3, but I expect that to change within days)

      Oh, and it's free to all...

    • I've actually been using Mandrake 10.1 Community on my Thinkpad since it was released and have been impressed with the speed of Mandrake's programs. The GUI programs for 10.0 and before are great, but you're right they're slow. 10.1 on the other hand has very fast GUI programs (and they work much better than before).

      I don't find they get outdated too soon, but I'll sometimes switch to the cooker (development) packages. Not only that, but Mandrake comes out with a new version every 6-9 months it seems, so
    • Mandrake does seem painfully slow, even though they claim to have speed optimisations. I gather from what I have seen that they use the --march=i586 option on the X86 builds, whereas other distros don't.

      MDK puts a lot of guff in to try and keep your machine running smoothly. Msec is the one thing that springs immediately to mind. It runs once a minute and does a lot of security related checks (including firewalling newly installed network cards if you're in the higher security modes). It can become ann

  • Anyone know (Score:1, Insightful)

    by opweirdisntit ( 780341 )
    Anyone know if ATI Radeon 9700 pros (or any other 300 model) can easily be configured in this version. I hate switching to linux because its a big p a i n to set up fglrx properly, 60% doesnt work and 100% has bad preformance..if only ati would start to really support linux...

    • Re:Anyone know (Score:3, Informative)

      by IncohereD ( 513627 )
      The last couple of fglrx packages have installed just fine for me, without even having to exit the GUI (except to reinitialize the driver). Basically you just need to install the ATI rpm with "rpm -i --force xxxx.rpm", and then run fglrxconfig, as it'll tell you to do on the console.

      Check out www.rage3d.com for more info...the linux forums have gotten really good.

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