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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. No...don't download the ISO's by 9632 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Buy them. Mandrake needs the cash.

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  2. Mandrake in trouble by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:I still don't like their packaging by garett_spencley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason Mandrake does it that way is to be 100% compatible with Redhat. The idea is that you can install any redhat rpm on a mandrake machine.

    I don't agree with this but that's their explanation anyway.

    I really wish they would drop this whole redhat compatibility thing and just follow the LSB.IMO the more distros that follow the LSB the better. It's the best way that I can see to be "compatible" with other distros.

    In the beginning Mandrake was RH with bug fixes, toys and compiled specifically for i586. But it has since grown in to much more than that. Ever since 7.0 they've broken away from that whole "redhat++" thing and I think it's time for them to break this compatibility issue and start following a standards base rather than acheiving compatibility by following another non-standard distro.

    It just doesn't make much sense to me especially if the idea is to make Linux more consistent which seems to be part of what Mandrake is about.

    It's really quite ironic.

    P.S: And you know what the worst part about it is? Mandrake still installs a /etc/redhat-release file.

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    Garett