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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.
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?!