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Mandrake 10.1 Official Publicly Available 31

Posted by timothy from the long-way-baby dept.
joestar writes "Just announced: the latest major Mandrakelinux release - 10.1 Official - is ready for public download on a number of FTP mirrors and through Bitorrent. This new version is now also available on a convenient ISO-DVD image, and as an experimental mini-ISO-CD image (which needs a fast Internet access to complete the installation). This new version provides many new features and a better hardware support, including improved support of mobile and wireless technologies. Download is available here."
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  • 10.1 was a step back for me (Score:3, Informative)

    by poofyhairguy82 ( 635386 ) on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @09:11PM (#11027044) Journal
    A month ago I installed 10.1 Official on my computer by installing the Community version and using URMPI to get the official version. I was looking forward to 10.1, as I need a good laptop OS. Yet I was very disappointed. My Linksys Wireless card (which worked fine in 10 official) wouldn't work. I tried in vain to fix it, but eventually gave up for Fedora Core 3. I would prefer to use Mandrake, as it probably has the most unofficial binary packages of any RPM distro and I hate compiling from source, but the non working drivers stopped the show for me.

    Of course, this is my own experiance and other may differ.

    • I agree. I installed 10.1 Official when it went to .torrents to clubmembers, and I'm basically sorry I did.

      I've basically noticed the polish leaving MDK since 8.0 (well maybe 8.2). 9.2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off. I installed 10.1 hoping it would fix the flaws of 10.0, but its made enough of them worse that I'm considering leaving.

      The biggest flaw I've found is their urpmi gui ("Mandrakelinux Update") will crash on "bad signature"s. Thats, fine. But it taints the RPM database
      • 9.2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off. I hear someone saying "(X-1).2 was the last one that didn't REALLY piss me off." every time a new mandrake version is shipped. It could be because many newbies used mandrake 1 version ago?
    • I am a Mandrake user, and I paid the momeny to get an early copy of 10.1, based on their fabled support of wireless and notebooks.

      I was sorely disappointed when I installed it and their configuration tools did not understand WPA out of the box, even though it is practically everywhere now. I had to go and get wpa_supplicant (which I couldn't find on the install CDs) and install that. I still haven't actually got WPA stable yet.

      I also had a killer of a time with my synaptics pad when I plugged in a USB mo
    • I have installed Gentoo 3-4 times in all the different stages without problems on my laptop. Looking for a non source based distro I installed Mandrake 10.1 and the install was very nice. Lots of pretty buttons. I set everything up, and rebooted. My laptop never even booted into X. It just hung. I tossed the cd in the trash, and grabbed the latest Gentoo install cd and started all over. They want you to pay for this?
      • I agree. When I decided to make the switch to Linux, I figured I'd start with something easy. Mandrake 10 was easy to install, but everything else was a pain in the ass. I switched to gentoo about a month later and I'm very happy with it. The installation is long and tedious, but not difficult. Comparing URPMI to portage is comparing night and day. Portage is worlds better.

        I think newbies thinking Mandrake is the way to go will be disappointed with linux

  • Bittorrent, Bittorrent, Bittorrent, (Score:4, Insightful)

    by DeadBugs ( 546475 ) on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @09:18PM (#11027119) Homepage
    Please use the Bittorrent link [mandrakelinux.com].

    Estimated time left: 54 hour 10 min 30 sec = :-(
  • I am going to download and install this version (when my 200h bittorrent dl is finished), but hope that it is more functional than the 10.1 community. I ended up having many problems with it, including inablilty to install NVIDIA drivers. Seems to me that they are falling behind other distros.
    • strange? the nvidia drivers have always worked fine for me in 9.2, 10 community and this release 10.1. Although I did an upgrade to 10.1 rather than a clean install and had to reinstall the nvidia driver , but nvidia's install found the previous install and removed it and installed the new one just fine.

      I do wonder, since I got the club release if this download contains the updates? On some machines konqueror would freeze completely after pluging in a usb key.
      • The problem was for a while, NVidia didn't have support for the latest 2.6.8 kernel, which you would have if you did the updates for 10.1 Community. A basic 10.1 Community install had 2.6.7, iirc, which worked fine with the existing NVidia driver. Just recently, NVidia released a new version of their driver which works with the latest kernels.

  • Mandrake 10.1 Community no problems... (Score:3, Informative)

    by samdu ( 114873 ) <samdu AT ronintech DOT com> on Tuesday December 07, 2004 @10:49PM (#11027893) Homepage
    I've been running 10.1 community without a single issue since it was first available. Everything installed without a hitch and has been chugging along without incident since the initial install. I'll be grabbing the official release asap. I have two clients running Fedora and I haven't had any issues to speak of with them either. All in all, I'd say the quality and ease of use of all of the major distros is getting better by leaps and bounds. Novell was kind enough to send me a copy of SuSE Enterprise 9 that I'll try to get installed on some machine here soon.

    In contrast, I've had major issues with SBS 2003 and some minor issues with other MS Server OSes lately. I won't be installing 2003 SP1 any time soon. It's a sad thing when I'm prepared to upgrade an entire OS on the Linux side yet afraid to even install a SP on the Windows side. Clearly Microsoft still has some work to do.
  • I saw the official ISOs around yesterday afternoon (CST). There were 3-4 US mirrors on the download page of which only one was fast till 7 PM (CST) after which it came to a crawl. Today, I saw 5-6 servers listed on the download page.

    Anyways it seems that I have sufficiently messed up with my current mandrake installation so much so that the 10.1 official upgrade process just hangs and it takes 5 minutes for KDE to show up it's face after I login.Its all because of my misuse of urpmi tool

    I am also lookin
  • Why aren't more distros offering DVD isos? it would be so much more tidy, not to mention more torrent-friendly.

  • Evening One: Wasted (Score:3, Informative)

    by Dr. Spork ( 142693 ) on Wednesday December 08, 2004 @05:36AM (#11030244)
    Well, I thought I'd try this, since my Linux partition needed a rewrite, and I was intrigued by the single disk deal which auto-fetches RPMs. But it turned out to be a very sloppy disk indeed.

    First of all, installation just got stuck and needed a hard reboot just because one of my disks is SATA. Gah, is SATA isn't exactly bleeding edge stuff... Once I figured out what was killing the installer, I disabled that disk in bios and the installer let me go on. I set up my internet connection and I asked it to fetch extra packages by FTP, since I wan't planning to install a whole lot at the start. Well sure, the servers are probably busy, but can you guess how the installer reacts to that? Yup, it just cuts out. The big grey box in the installer just gets empty, the pointer turns into the hourglass, and that's how it stays. That's just sloppy and disappointing.

    So I finally just reformatted and stopped asking the installer to try getting stuff from servers, saying I only have this one disk. From there the setup went fine, but it left me with a system that has exactly one GUI application: the terminal. If they put in a graphical file manager, rpm manager and maybe Mozilla (they had plenty of space on the disk), I would have had more of a will to go on, but as it is, I think I'll just go to bed and overwrite this monstrosity with something else. That is, unless somebody can recommend a way to go on with the installation from the GUI.

  • I just installed Mdk 10.1 on my laptop and desktop for a test, and it looks pretty good. Suspend to disk works nicely on the laptop (old Compaq armada m300), NVIDIA drivers installed easily and wireless (Netgear WG311 v2) on the desktop works fine with the ndiswrapper driver. It's pretty fast and stable so far: definitely better than 10.0, which was very buggy.
    My only complaints:
    - default theme in GNOME is nasty
    - Removable memory cards don't work properly (it doesn't detect card insert/remove like HAL base
  • A lot of people are posting negative comments about how their MDK 10.1 install turned out, and I'd just like to temper that with my experience.

    I've had nothing but good fortune with my install of 10.1. It detected everything (including my Synaptics touchpad, trackball USB mouse, and wireless card) perfectly and got it up and running with no hassles.

    I really like the administrator tools in Mandrake, which is one of the reasons I use it instead of any other distribution. In 10.1 the GUI tools are very cle

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