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Mandrake 8.0 Comes Out

Posted by Hemos on from the here-comes-the-submissions dept.

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.

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  1. When slashdotted, here are mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    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

  2. Evolution by Psiren · · Score: 4

    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.

  3. Moderators on crack or astroturfers out in force? by FreeUser · · Score: 4

    +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.

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    The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
  4. Rushed, once again. by MicroBerto · · Score: 4
    Don't get me wrong -- I love Mandrake and the guys that work for MandrakeSoft. However, I must say that just like 7.0, the beta cycle on this was far too short. If you read MandrakeForum, you will notice that there seems to be many unresolved bugs.

    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

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    Berto
  5. You don't get it, do you? by Tim+C · · Score: 5

    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

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    It's official. Most of you are morons.
  6. Re:Summary of the advantages? by LordArathres · · Score: 5

    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!

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    stainless steel
  7. From the Mandrake Features Page... by mightyflash · · Score: 5

    "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?!