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Mandrake for Alpha & UltraSPARC

Posted by Hemos on from the rolling-out-the-distros dept.

Soko writes "Linux-Mandrake has joined SUSE, Red Hat and Caldera in porting their distribution to Alpha and SPARC architectures. The announcement was originally found on freshmeat and talks about getting help from Alpha Processors Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. MandrakeSoft has ported its latest popular version of the Linux operating system, Linux-Mandrake 7.0, to the above processors. "

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  1. Internationalization and localization by dsplat · · Score: 3
    Mandrake has been quite proactive is adding any available support for as many languages as possible. They have a localization page dedicated to it. They aren't the only organization working on it, but they are trying to make it widely available in an easily usable form. The Translation Project and Linux International which has sponsored mailing lists for it, have probably been doing it as actively as anyone else out there. There are other projects working on it as well:


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  2. The creator of BeroLinux (=me) is now with Red Hat by bero-rh · · Score: 3

    Just a correction - I've left Mandrake in September to join Red Hat.

    To stop rumors before they start coming up:

    My primary reason for joining Red Hat was getting the changes that (IMO) make sense to as many people as possible. People who decide to try Linux should get the best possible distribution right away... (Instead of getting a bad impression of Linux because of the flaws of one distribution)

    Another reason was safety. With Red Hat Linux getting better all the time (and merging back changes from Mandrake), I don't know how long there's room for an extended version of Red Hat Linux.

    It's not a "rat leaving the sinking ship" thing. There is nothing wrong with Mandrake. There's also nothing wrong with Red Hat and most other Linux distributions.

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  3. Debian 2.1 has Alpha and Sparc. by divec · · Score: 3

    2.2 Will also add Power PC and ARM. m68k and i386 both already available of course.

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  4. Who's Behind Mandrake? by Effugas · · Score: 4

    That's what I want to know: We know about all these stars at Redhat, and VA, and from everywhere else...

    But who, I ask, is behind the smoothly polished quality of Mandrake?

    The creator of BeroLinux joined the Mandrake project a long time ago, this much I remember. BeroLinux was not only a one man distribution but the first out of the gate with Kernel 2.2 up and running. Mandrake has alot of the feel of some one guiding force trying to catch all the loose ends--and it shows.

    Yes, Mandrake 7.0 has areas of weakness that show up more than in any other Mandrake Linux distribution. Growing pains happen, and Mandrake's actually striking out with its own code this time around--and it's impressive code at that. Are Lothar and DiskDrake being ported to Alpha and Sparc as well?

    You know, one of these days I'm just going to put up a clock "Days till Redhat acquires Mandrake"...

    Yours Truly,

    Dan Kaminsky
    DoxPara Research
    http://www.doxpara.com

  5. Re:What will it offer on those processors? by Jerenk · · Score: 3

    The RH6.1 Alpha is relatively stable, but does have some problems. GNOME is particularly horrific on RH Alpha (causes HARD crashes - absolutely insane). Pretty much forces the use KDE. Also, the GNOME issues requires the removal of ALL Gnome RPMS (it still tries to tie in with KDE). Since I use KDE most of the time, it doesn't bug me except for the fact that I lose GDM. That really stinks. If someone has a decent replacement for GDM, I'd love to hear about it.

    The GNOME issues that I see have occurred on both Alphas that I use. It is not something that I am doing wrong. =/

    I'd also love to see FreeBSD use AlphaBIOS for its bootstrap instead of SRM. I don't want to use the SRM console! Ugh. AlphaBIOS is nice, and why is only Linux supporting it (NT does too)??

    Later,
    Justin

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  6. Not Just Redhat by Ryandav · · Score: 4

    Mandrake is no longer just Redhat with pentium optimisations. If you bother to go look at their website
    or at the spinoff site mandrakeuser.org (a good start page for many a newbie), you detect all the signs of
    something that is more than Redhat.

    Cooker is the CVS version that gets devel work. They have several ambitious projects like Lothar,
    DrakConf, DiskDrake, and more, all independant of anything really from RH, and in my opinion,
    nicer too. The system really has a different feel top to bottom, one that I appreciate more for a desktop system.
    I'm not aware of any security level presets in RH, and there are no "preferred ftp access" type areas as per RH
    (a way to charge for updates, hello?).

    A system can be made into anything you want, distro comparison can only be based upon presets and defaults,
    and the harder to quantify "feel" of the set. This is my favorite dist of linux for home and personal use.
    It also has a very good response rate on the newbie and expert mailing lists, high Signal-to-Noise ratio.

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