Mandrake Releases 8.2 Beta

joestar writes: "As seen at Mandrake's website, Mandrake Linux 8.2 Beta seems to be available for download at different places. The new features include the ability to install a Mandrake as small as 65Mb on the HD, and encrypted file-system support. I guess it's the good time to report all bugs we don't want to see in the final version. Very promising release, worth a look at!"

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Noooo ....

[Anonymous Coward]

You killed my ISO download. You bastards!

I used to use Mandrake

[rnd()]

but now I use LFS

Re:Encrypted filesystems

[Jagasian]

Nice site. Thanks for the link. I guess you could say that I already supported the Palestinians since I don't support the Israeli occupation and all of the other bad things done to the Palestinian people.

However, just as I do not support Israeli violence, I do not support Palestinian violence. For a gross cutting to the point. Both sides should immediately stop fighting, and Israel should be force by the international community (especially the USA), to give the Palestinians back their land and money made from use of their land.

Still, its very sad to see the horrid bias in our nation's media. Palestinians are terrorists, while Israelis are soldiers protecting their land. *sigh* things couldn't be so far from the truth. Well, I am just a lowly American citizen, and so I will hand that link to everyone I know.

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[Shabazz]

The fact that you say "Give them back their land" shows that you should do some more research before recommending foreign policy. It never was the palestinian's lands. "palestine" was under british mandate before the Israel was lawfully formed. And if you did some research you might be surprised to learn that Baron Rothschild (the french wine baron) purchased much of the land and donated it to the Jewish people. As for the Palestinians getting money made from the land, how do you propose this to happen? Do you think it's sitting in a vault somewhere?:

As for biased media, Palestinians who bomb marketplaces are terrorists. Israelis who bomb terrorists are not. Same there as it is everywhere. There have been times in the past where Israel has targeted civilians, and it's not condoneable (sic?) but the Palestinians primarily target civilians.

Re:Encrypted filesystems

[Dog-Cow]

There is no time in recorded history that Jews did not live in the same area currently called Israel. They certainly had a national identity and country in that area that was recognized by the powers-that-be of the time. In this I refer to the Roman government. They conqured Israel, and it's hard to conquer a country that isn't a country. On the other hand, the Arabs (and palestinians are simply Arabs) never had an established state in that area of land. Even when controlled by Turkey, it was not an independant state.

Given that most of the nations of the world ackowledge Israel's existance as a State, with it's own government, I would think that it would be safe to say that Isrealis are indeed just defending themselves.

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[xah]

As seen at Mandrake's website, Mandrake Linux 8.2 Beta seems to be available for download at different places.

That should be "from different places."

The new features include the ability to install a Mandrake as small as 65Mb on the HD, and encrypted file-system support.

It's not clear what number "65Mb" represents. The combination "a Mandrake" is nonsensical. One way to fix these problems would be to rewrite the phrase as, "to install Mandrake in as little as 65MiB." There should be no hyphen in "file system."

I guess it's the good time to report all bugs we don't want to see in the final version.

It should be "a good time." The use of the word "we" here is unnecessarily inclusive.

Very promising release, worth a look at!~

This is a fragmentary sentence that I would expect from a commercial advertisement. What is the tilde doing at the end of the sentence?

Grade F.

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[Savage Henry Matisse]

OK, I guess I'm just following this whole mess down troll lane, but:

The first thing that needs to happen is that corrupt american politicians need to stop voting more and more free money to israel. They wont because then the jewish interest groups will stop giving them money, but that would be a good start.

OK, I'm a little confused about these vast Jewish interests groups that are controlling all of the US Gov with money. Jews currently account for less than 2% of the US population (around 5 or 6 million Jews nationwide-- about the same as Arab/Arab-Americans in the US, in what is a dicededly convenient co-incidence.) If money is what talks-- and the above statement seems to pretty explicitly point out that's where you're coming from-- then where are these 6 million members of ZOG getting the wherewithall to make themselves heard?

Look, since '97, Big Tobacco alone has given around $18 million in political contributions. I find it hard to believe that a vast minority of Americans is going to compete with that-- and that's just Big Tobacco. What about the Auto Industry? Coal and Oil? the NRA? From '89-'98 the NRA dropped something like $14 million on Congress alone.

Maybe if every Jewish man, woman and child put a dollar in a special fund in order to get certain US officials elected . . .