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Mandrake 8.1 Beta1 (Raklet) Released

Posted by timothy on from the sitting-around-the-table-with-skewers dept.

keegnotrub writes: "Mandrake just dumped 8.1 Beta on their servers. Along with updated software (KDE 2.2, kernel 2.4.8, etc) they have reworked their control center to include many new features." Word to the wise: there are some reactions to this beta -- as well as a list of known bugs and fixes -- at mandrakeforum.com. What I'd like to know is if a Wacom Intuos USB tablet will work out-of-the-box on 8.1, since I just bought a refurbed one ;)

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  1. Mmmm Fresh Release... by lifebouy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    New Mandrake releases are like nose-candy for newbies. I've been hooked for a while now. I love Slack, and Debian is where its at. But I still love to get my hands on the latest ML releases just to see what new things they put in the distro. But it makes ya lazy, everything(generally) works right out of the box.(Some might consider that a feature;) Mandrake Forum seems to be turning into a little community. Kudos particularly to Deno for that site. There's lots of nuggets to ferret out of that site if you have problems.

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  2. Too Many Connections (Poorly made packages) by gengee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I suspect MandrakeForum is using the Mandrake PostgreSQL RPMs. They're built with a (default) 32 connection limit.

    Warning: Too many connections in /home/www/mandrakeforum.com/html/mainfile.php on line 24
    Unable to select database

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  3. Re:Mandrake is cool, but surely Debian is better. by breser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the developers decision. The vast majority of people who use Mandrake aren't developers. They have no intention of making any code modifications. Probably never will look at source.

    Freedom is about letting developers decide how they want to license their works in a way in which everyone can use them. And if developers don't care if someone like Microsoft uses their work without compensation, then let them.

    Keeping their work from the world is merely because you as a developer wouldn't want to give up that right is silly. I can understand you not wanting to work on that code. But nobody is forcing you to make any changes.

    So frankly this whole BSD license is bad has nothing to do with freedom but everything with RMS not liking anything he didn't invent.