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Mandrake 9.0 (Dolphin) Is Available [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the swim-with-the-fishes dept.

joestar writes "What else to say? I've tested the RCs and they were great... There are two very interesting links: the Press Release, and a very nice presentation. From the presentation: 'Affirming its leading position in the Linux desktop arena, Mandrake Linux 9.0 introduces many newly redesigned graphical desktops and configuration utilities. The famous "Mandrake touch" is evident throughout the many clean, attractive and friendly desktops to make everyday tasks easier for all users of a Mandrake system.' And apparently it's already LSB-1.2 certified!" Update: 09/25 23:57 GMT by T : Apropos new releases, an anonymous reader writes "Parts of Red Hat's next OS have been unofficially leaked, as news.com reports here. The official release date is scheduled for next Monday, 9/30/02." Update: 09/26 00:29 GMT by T : Gaël Duval points to less-swamped links to the press release and to the Presentation & Features page. Thanks, Gaël.

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  1. But is it any faster? by night_flyer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not to troll, but is it?

    Mandrake 8.2 (running KDE) is dog slow on my 333p2,128RAM and 16 meg video card. Windows 98 was much faster.

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    1. Re:But is it any faster? by SCHecklerX · · Score: 4, Interesting
      Mandrake is snappy on my 64MB libretto (P233). The thing is, you just have to customize a bit. Remove all the cruft, and use a lighter window manager (I use windowmaker). I do this no matter what distro I use anyway. That's the whole point of linux...being able to run what you want, only what you want, and how you want to run it. Right?

      Another thing I did was to remove many of the scripts in /etc/profile.d along with disabling medusa from running every time X starts. The scripts in profile.d by default run jobs that index all kinds of stuff that I really don't need indexed.

      The only thing I haven't figured out is what causes modprobe to be called on the first console login/logoff. Not much of an issue, as I never really log off, but put the system into hibernation mode.

      Here's my process list:

      PID TTY TIME CMD
      1 ? 00:00:07 init
      2 ? 00:00:10 keventd
      3 ? 00:00:06 kapmd
      4 ? 00:00:01 ksoftirqd_CPU0
      5 ? 00:01:22 kswapd
      6 ? 00:00:24 bdflush
      7 ? 00:01:08 kupdated
      8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
      11 ? 00:00:00 kreiserfsd
      64 ? 00:00:01 devfsd
      516 ? 00:00:11 cardmgr
      739 ? 00:00:05 syslogd
      748 ? 00:00:01 klogd
      798 ? 00:00:00 atd
      873 ? 00:00:05 esd
      973 ? 00:00:00 crond
      998 ? 00:00:47 xfs
      1052 tty1 00:00:00 login
      1053 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
      1054 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
      1055 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
      1058 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
      1059 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
      1315 vc/1 00:00:00 bash
      2082 ? 00:00:29 sshd
      15441 ? 00:00:00 xinetd
      25484 vc/1 00:00:00 startx
      25496 vc/1 00:00:00 xinit
      25497 ? 00:21:17 X
      25503 vc/1 00:00:00 sh
      25504 vc/1 00:00:40 wmaker
      25507 vc/1 00:00:02 wmcms
      25508 vc/1 00:00:00 wmCalClock
      25509 vc/1 00:18:20 wmtop
      25510 vc/1 00:00:09 wmifs
      25511 vc/1 00:00:05 wmwave
      25512 vc/1 00:00:01 wmtuxtime
      27676 ? 00:00:00 dhcpcd
      28096 vc/1 00:00:00 run-mozilla.sh
      28101 vc/1 00:04:38 mozilla-bin
      28103 vc/1 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
      28104 vc/1 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
      28105 vc/1 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
      28107 vc/1 00:00:01 mozilla-bin
      28115 vc/1 00:00:00 mozilla-bin
      28162 vc/1 00:00:00 aterm
      28163 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
      28184 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
    2. Re:But is it any faster? by vadim_t · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Maybe it uses devfs? devfsd will try to modprobe everything you try to access in /dev. If you're feeling really curious, you could replace modprobe with a wrapper shell script and write the output of pstree to a file from it.

  2. I just downloaded and burned 9.0rc3... by Karma+Sink · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since I'm running low on CD-Rs, and I wanted to install Mandrake tonight, can anyone tell me what changes there have been between rc3 and the final release?

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    1. Re:I just downloaded and burned 9.0rc3... by elliott666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Here's how to update to the latest cooker graphically.

      first open up the 'mandrake control center' (under the 'configuration' menu)

      click on 'software management' on the left

      click on 'software sources manager'

      click on the 'add...' button

      for the 'type of source', choose 'FTP server'

      type in a name (like cooker)

      for the URL, you can point it to
      'ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Ma nd rake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS'

      for the 'Relative path to synthesis/hdlist' enter
      '../base/hdlist.cz'

      click Ok and wait a minute while it downloads the hdlist

      click on 'save and quit'

      now once you're back in the control center, click on 'Install Software'

      Next to All packages there's a scroll box, choose 'by update availability'

      expand the upgradable branch and select the packages you want to update, or click on the checkbox next to upgradable to select them all. once you've selected what you want click on install and wait until it's done.

      quit out of the software packages installation (which should read software package installation, but try arguing that one on the cooker list and see how far it gets you!)

      that should be it.

  3. Re:Linux Standars Base by Dave_bsr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I imagine it is certifiable, but they didn't go to the trouble to do so because it's not anything anyone is going to pay for. The two are virtually identical, +/- a few non-free packages - the core is essentially the same, so download follows standard. It just wasn't certified because that takes time and it's a free version.

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  4. Red Hat, Mandrake by Bobb+Sledd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With Bero no longer working on KDE, I suggest that Mandrake may become more in the spotlight, especially if they see an opportunity to make emphasized advancements.

    Red Hat will have to work a bit harder now or slip behind. Either way, both of these two recent events have interesting dynamics that could fuel competition between perhaps all distros.

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  5. Re:Mandrake 9 DVD by deno · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Send me an email (denis at mandrake), and we'll clear that up in no time. DVD of course can't ship yet, but if they said that cap will ship first then it should have been at your place long time ago.

  6. Re:no thanks... by Sciamachy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hear it's going to suck ass - Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has just quit RH because he reckons they're trying to make KDE crippleware in RH8.