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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!"
Why not wait a couple of hours before slashdotting it?
Buy them. Mandrake needs the cash.
I've decided to mispell one or more words in all my correspondence. If you don't like it then don't read it.
"they still only allow up2date go to 4.2.9 while 4.2.17 was out for mostly forever"
Wow! 4.2.9 is much better than the 2.4.19-pre3 I found on ftp.kernel.org.
The one thing I never liked (don't know if they still do it, but it was done this way in 8.1) is the way that they take large pakages (such as KDE) and put all of the files in non-standard (according to KDE, I suppose) directories. There's no /opt/kde2, everything is dispersed around the system... /usr/share/kde2/lib, etc...
./configure --prefix=/usr/blah --bindir=blah blah. Does it have to be this way??
While I suppose that this is the "right" way to do it in one sense, it makes adding in other KDE software (whether compiling or what not) very difficult.
You've got to do some nasty configure black-magic like
This is a good reason to have /home as a separate partition :) In any case, backing up home is easy if you have a place to stick the tarball. /home should give you a nice backup that preserves ownership and permissions to stick somehwere...
/opt, /home, and /usr/local are the key htings I keep around when I upgrade. I also have extra software installs and multimedia files, but I keep those on the file server, and there it is also kept separate from the partitions the distro gets to screw with (and on a RAID array).
tar czvf home.tar.gz
Don't need a GUI for something that straightforward...
I personally keep all data that I want persistant accross installs on non-root partitions:
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Yes, I know of several root/boot rescue disks,
but a disk made specifically for Mandrake might be more useful & user friendly.
Floppies are unreliable, slow, and don't hold much.
Include something like Symmantec Ghost for easy backups
Include CDRW support and USB2/firewire support for those new external burners and hard-drives.
Stupid idea? - I'd pay extra for it.
What's everybody else think?
For all those saying how nice a product this is and how you are downloading the ISO's as you type, something to consider...
Right on Mandrake's site is what I would call a plea, and what otehrs would call begging for money.
"Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money"
So perhaps just this once people can go out and buy some CD's to help support this company and make sure there is another release in the future.
I saw someone else say this earlier, but it got modded up to 2 as Funny... I don't know why buting the CD's to support a company in financial trouble is funny though.
Uh, I think that's supposed to be OpenOffice. Oops.
Of course, Mandrake needs the cash...
But when you buy a box, specially in stores, there's only a small portion of your cash that goes to the developers. Manufacturing, packaging, shipping, support, distributor's and retailer's margins take the major part of the revenue.
When you subscribe to the Club, you make sure the cash will be spent directly on the Mandrake Linux open-source development, you have access to all the software, including commercial applications, and a lot of Club privileges.
Besides, the boxes won't be available until a few weeks, so join the club and you can download everything today.
We can do that for them. Just share it with your gnutella client and gnutella will do the rest. Just make sure that you have a client that supports some of the interesting new features (super peer, distributed downloads). Limewire does it all. If enough people share their isos, there'll be plenty of bandwidth
Jilles
Do you think that Slashdot/VA could actually pay for the bandwidth that it would take to do this? /. readers only read the front page. I would imagine that they read the linked stories as well. If Slashdot caches those linked stories, the bandwidth used would increase massively.
Taco said that the majority of
It is hard to be "friendly" when it costs $$$$
A noble sentiment, but if you want to really help then Join the Mandrake club.
If you buy CD a lot of that money goes towards packaging distribution and marketing.
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Guilty
Mirrors? "Download it from the mirrors"? Why is *that* your immediate reaction, you cheapskates? Buy the freaking distro or you won't have it any more!
The important thing to reconize is that mandrake FUNDS the software they use in their distro. They fund many programmers to work full time on open source software. They are not a distro that just takes your money for themselves, they help the community.
Doesnt anyone remember their donation to debian also?