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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. 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