Mandrake 8.2 Available

Jester998 writes "Linux Mandrake 8.2 is out! Check out the official annoucement or head off to your closest mirror to grab the ISO images. The release is bound to be amazing, with the return of kernel-secure, a 65MB minimum install, hotplug device support, encrypted filesystems and more!"

Comments

Re:No...don't download the ISO's

[chad_r]

Why was this moderated as Funny? They really do need the money.

Why this obsession with ISO's?

[Malc]

What is this obsession with downloading and burning these huge ISO's? All that bandwidth that gets consumed, yet how many of the programs in the image sit idle and never used? Since I recently converted from Mandrake to Debian, I've got to say, I've turned against the idea of having ISOs. With a fast internet connection, it's so much easier and quicker to just download the boot disk and then just download during setup what you really need. The only useful purpose that I see to ISO's is for creating CDs for people without a good connection, or if you're going to have multiple installs.

Motd

[__past__]

I once tried Mandrake - for about 5 minutes more than the install took. Come on - you cannot take an operating system serious that gives you that /etc/motd.

Oh, and by the way, for all those "Mandrake needs your money" idiots: I need money, too. If all of you send me, say, 50 bucks, I will happily give you a collection of free software other people wrote as well...