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Mandrake 8.0 Comes Out
Boban Acimovic writes "New Mandrake 8.0 is finally out. Official announcement will come today, but new ISO files are already on some of mirrors. Main improvements are kernel =2.4.3, KDE =2.1.1, GNOME 1.4, Nautilus 1.0, Evolution 0.9, XFree86 =4.0.3, RPM 4.0, improved installer with pictures and other nice stuff. Enjoy!" Thanks to Gael Duval, from Mandrake for letting me know - the main features are listed as well as the new features page. But one of the cooler parts is a new part with Mandrake-Linux that will let you donate to the Free Software project of your choice in Mandrake - that's at at Linux-Mandrake.com. Update: 04/19 12:27 PM by H :Newsforge has got a article with more mirrors as well.
Berto, Berto...
;-)
1) "Bugs in RC1"!="Bugs in final"
2) We did the job as good as we could. Time will tell how good this was.
Personally I have a very good feeling for 8.0, quite oposite to what I fealt when 7.2 came out. Sure, there will be bug fixes and updates (first two being samba and kernel), but that's life.
FYI, there is no such thing as "bug free software", with exception of TeX. IMO software gets released at the moment when developers change color from usual greyish to pale green, not at the moment when "no more bugs exist".
Did you select a bare-bones installation or something? I think you've got a bad installation.
--Be human.
Wrong... they're not asking for money. Did you actually follow the link before posting your troll? They're giving you the opportunity to support the open-source project of your choice.
bp
One of the developments not mentioned but important is that Mandrake is once again binary-compatible with Red Hat. Now that rpm (version 4), glibc (2.2) and gcc (2.96-RH) are in sync between Mandrake 8 and Red Hat 7, RPMs can be interchanged freely between two of the largest Linux distributions. This is a good thing, regardless of which of the two you prefer. This should also further legitimize gcc 2.96-RH, which apparently is quite stable now.
Leave it to Mandrake to mess up my day! I was going to stay home, now I have to go to work so I can download my fave distro on the T1 and burn it off!
I am SO switching to Debian! Those guys never update.
Last night on TechTV the show The Screen Savers did a live install of Linux Mandrake 8.0
You can get all of that information and more off of their web site.
They downloaded the ISO images (2 of them) and burned them onto CD's and did the expert install to show all of the new features.... Extremely simple install and partition...
Give it up for Mandrake
Linuxrunner
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
My treading into Linux was with Mandrake. I have other distros, Progeny, but I think Mandrake is more than a simple Distro. The 2 cd iso's are packed with software. Mandrake spent the time and effort to get the coolest free software out there and made sure it works with their distro, then put them into RPM's and packed them all up and gives everything away for free. Cool.
I would recommend the Mandrake distro to people who want to learn Linux becuase after installing it, you dont need to really do anything more except for use it. Its a great complete product. I just their FTP servers are going to be tanked. I'll just have to wait.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
stainless steel
OK, so when this is slashdotted, here is a list of mirrors for all you downloaders out there! Linux-Mandrake 8.0 release candidate mirrors for i586 processors.
Austria, France, Germany , Sweden
I hope they've made it clear that evolution is still pre-beta. Its still extremely unstable atm, and would give a poor impression to new users.
+5 insightful? Looks like the same Microsoft lackeys that rated my comment from +4 interesting to +5 funny (thereby prejuding readers against the content before they've read a single word) are out abusing the moderation system once again. Moderating up this kind of disinformation is disingenous, indeed downright disgusting.
As others have pointed out, Mandrake forked from red hat years ago and make significant contributions to numerous free software projects, not the least of which is providing an easy way for the rest of us to make financial contributions to the project of our choice without having to do a bunch of research first. This will probably translate into a sizable increase in contributions from people like myself with money to give, but not time to do the necessary digging to find out how.
Finally, Mandrake stands on its own, with its own unique and compelling features, not the least of which are its ease of installation and ease of use. I can give my aunt a copy of Mandrake 7.2 and she can install and use it with little or no help, unlike the copy of Windows ME she had.
Red Hat is a very nice distribution, and I wish them success. Likewise for Suse, Debian, and, yes, Mandrake.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
However, I do think that this is much, much better than 7.2, just don't be surprised to see 8.1 (or 8.01) come out just as quickly, and tons of things in MandrakeUpdate.
Mike Roberto
- GAIM: MicroBerto
Berto
Okay, I'll bite - I haven't been trolled in a while :-)
MS don't ask for handouts, because they force you to pay for their software.
With Mandrake, as with most other Linux distros, you have a choice - pay, or not. All Mandrake are saying is "feel free to download it for free, but if you feel like contributing some sum of money, you can do so here - you can even specify who gets the money!"
They're not asking for handouts. They're giving us the opportunity to show our appreciation for and support of all the hardwork that goes into all the cool stuff we get to use.
Cheers,
Tim
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Sure...
EASY TO GET
Download. Burn. Put in CD. Reboot. Smile.
INSTALLATION
Can run through windows for the true beginer.
Graphical Partitioning.
Support for a LOT of file systems.
Full Graphical Installation.
Single User Mode, its really nice. No Login, KDE, bad security but for the beginer its good.
Very good hardware detection.
USE Auto mounting file systems.
Packed with applications. 2 ISO Images of RPMS. I think this is one of the most important ones. You literally get EVERYTHING you might need.
Compatible with *MOST* Red Hat RPM's.
Great online support. Mailing lists etc.
Graphical Configurations for everything.
Comes with KDE and Gnome + like 7 other window managers. Easily log in and out for some apps that dont like Gnome, or KDE, depending.
Free
Easy to install. Easy to use. Fully functional. It blows Windows away in useability. Its nicley secure and has different security settings during installation. Pick Paranoid for a almost uncrackable system.
I would recomend it to anyone.
Arathres
I love my iBook. I use it to run Linux!
stainless steel
"Kernel 4.0.3 provides enhanced support for USB, Infrared and FireWire devices, as well as better performance with AMD and Cyrix CPUs" [...]
Did I sleep 10 years or so?!