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!"

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Truly amazing product, truly amazing company...

[joestar]

I tested one of the latest Mandrake Beta (currently downloading the final), and I have to admit Mandrake Linux, and in particular the 8.2 is really an amazing product. It comes with more features than I ever seen in all other Linux distros, it's now really rock solid, in 2 weeks, I only found 4 or 5 minor bugs in the beta4. It's really a great solution that can be deployed in enterprise, as well as for individual use. That's what I love in Mandrake: I run it for personal use on my laptop, and in my company on one hundred machine, and while it's the same product, the same CDs, it's not at all the same use! On my laptop I'm like a Windows user, in my company we use it like we used our SUN network before...

I have to say I'm really impressed by how MandrakeSoft, a small and rather fragile company, is keeping on going its own way. They prefer doing more efforts in building and improving a dream OS everyday, keeping the right open source software way, and they try to avoid laying offs by requesting financial contributions of its users (see the Mandrake Club announcement). I don't know what this company is going to become in the next ten years but really, Mandrake Linux and MandrakeSoft are more exciting product and company than Red Hat or SuSE!

P2P ISO Distribution

[CaptCanuk]

So what's a big problem with Slashdotted ISO releases??? To quote MC Hammer: Hammer time. Those poor distros get nailed so hard that you can't get to an ISO at a reasonable speed for a week. And companies like Mandrake really need all the support they can get. It's great product and I'm sure they have to pay for massive bandwidth with ISO releases (even with all the mirrors from edu sites and the like). Looks like we need a p2p distribution system a la fasttrack network that allows multiple downloads from multiple hosts so that we can waterfall these ISO's. I just hope someday it will be implemented (and more importantly: used by the masses).