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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. Mandrake is cool, but surely Debian is better. by Flabdabb+Hubbard · · Score: 1, Troll
    From an 'open source' perspective. Debian is the only GNU/Linux distro that adheres to RMS's definition of 'open source'. While Mandrake, and Redhat (based on Mandrake) are not open source, but are the more restrictive 'free software' as defined by Eric Raymond and Bruse Perens 'Open Software Definition'.

    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.

  2. Re:Keeps getting better... by MKalus · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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    If you want to e-mail me, use my PGP Key.
  3. Re:Where the KDE versions os Drake Tools? by nathanm · · Score: 2, Troll
    Something I left out of my previous post is the fact that porting to KDE would be completely useless. These tools can already be used by someone using KDE.

    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.

    Admittedly the suggestion might be more likely to be acted on if it were sent to Mandrake Forum instead of Slashdot, but I doubt that you've actually checked to see whether the above poster has sent the suggestion to Mandrake or not.
    I didn't have to check. If the poster had checked MandrakeSoft's website, they wouldn't have whined on /. in the first place.