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Mandrake 8.1 Beta1 (Raklet) Released
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 ;)
Natalie Portman and hot grits down pants forever!
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Forth PR0stering SKILLZ!
If you believe in freedom, you are better off going the debian route, since that way you are ensured that your distro is 100% Open Source, whereas with mandrake, it is all 'free software', but some of it may be released under the highly restrictive BSD license which RMS has criticised in the past, since it allows huge corporations such as Microsoft to profit at the expense of open source developers.
To be more precise, fuck the jews and niggers.
FIrst, i havent seen a distro in several years that you cannot setup an ext2 partition in the installer.
/home(so i can share it with freebsd). now all admit it was not all point and click, I didnt use the standard debian install disks, i used the reiserfs install discs. And then i put a custom kernel on the disk, and a newer version of mkreiserfs on a seperate floppy, but if i had chosen, i could have worked off the regular reiserfs install floppys.
debian has all the faetures you mentioned(but they are targted to more advanced users).
a few days ago installed debian on my laptop with devfs and reiserfs root, and an ext2
Debian has a software update utility, being aslashdot reader, im sure you have heard of it, apt-get. And debian does have custom managment utilitys, there called bash and emacs.
if i wanted gui configuration utilitys, and other things to hide the details from me, i would proably use mandrake, but i like editing config files, i like knowing exactly what is happening on my system. Thats why i use debian.
-- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
Why don't older stuff and search work?
SuSE does that just fine.
I deployed this week SuSE 7.2 on several machines all running ReiserFS happily (and that's a good thing as one of the new guys decided that to "move" a box he just "unplugs" it while it was still humming away.
Nevertheless: SuSE is pretty nice sind 6.4 and since 7.0 the ReiserFS is standard and works just like a charm.
Michael
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> and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
Of course Slashdot would pawn off responsibility on to users....
Too many open sores makes them cranky
-- Trolled...you WILL be === Yoda
your're all stupid fucks. Especially the clueless mods.
Maybe if you upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 you will be able to spell as good as your secretary.
HardDrake, their hardware detection tool, is already a KDE program. The gnome version isn't even released yet, but available in cvs.
DrakX, their graphical installer, doesn't use any desktop. It's only used in the installation or upgrade of your system. Which is really only useful to someone putting together their own distro.
DiskDrake, their graphical partition tool, uses only the Perl/Gtk library for its interface, not gnome or any other desktop. Most distros (even the ones using KDE as their desktop) include Perl/Gtk by default.
I didn't have to check. If the poster had checked MandrakeSoft's website, they wouldn't have whined on
Fucking troll. Get a life, can't you keep it in your pants?