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Mandrake 8.2 Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the never-pick-a-mandrake-root dept.

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!"

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  1. Still? by xenotrope · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Isn't Mandrake considered the worst distro of them all? I don't mean to start a flame war, but I've read lots of complaints about it.

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  2. Re:mirrors? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    When I had the missfortune of visiting St. Louis recently, the yokels^H^H^H^H^H^Hlocals told me that "Missouri" was pronounced "Misery". I could see why. I can't imagine why anybody would want to live in such a mind-numbingly boring place. Even worse, you have to listen to that "real nice" accent that makes everybody sound real[ly] stupid.

    The sad thing is, this guy is probably too stupid and clueless to realize what his real problem is. It's not that he can't find a local mirror, it's the fact that local means in Missouri.

  3. Re:No...don't download the ISO's by chad_r · · Score: 1, Flamebait

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

  4. Why this obsession with ISO's? by Malc · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    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.

  5. Definitely not! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mandrake is the second worst distro. The worst is Redhat. The best, of course, is Debian.

  6. Re:No...don't download the ISO's by metacell · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey, guys, don't spend your hard-earned money just to 'support a good cause'. I think open source OSes will win over proprietary ones anyway.

    Unless, of course, any of you has a 'real job', but why are you hanging around Slashdot then? :)

  7. Motd by __past__ · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    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...

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