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Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) Is Available!
Not to load you up with Mandrake, but joestar writes "Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Bamboo) is now officially available at a number of FTP mirrors. This version appears to be a key release for MandrakeSoft and includes many new features such as a new simplified installation procedure, ZeroConf network support, Wi-Fi support, NTFS partition resizing and a brand-new... MandrakeGalaxy theme. It's very beautiful and the whole thing has apparently very few bugs, which is a good news. A full presentation is available at Mandrake's website, download is available from their FTP page as usual. As I see it, it's certainly the most important Mandrake release since version 7.0..." Update: 03/25 21:44 GMT by T : And if you like the distro, you can do both yourself and Mandrake a favor by ordering box sets straight from them, or joining Mandrake's Club.
It's their choice to either make it available for download, or only offer the CDs. But all this "you can download, but please buy the CDs anyway" whining just makes me sick.
Okay, we know SuSE is German (boo!) and Mandrake is French. Isn't Xandros Canadian? Corel sure is/was. And if you want to get technical about it, our Canadian neighbors/cousins aren't helping us out any. Whereas the cousin nations of Britain, the United States, and Australia are all helping to take Saddam out to the woodshop, where are our northern cousins up in that fake country of theirs? That fake country that our tax dollars help to defend, it should be noted... What will it take before you surrender your sovereignty to become part of the U.S. of North America? 1. Quebec independence? (good riddance) 2. The cancellation of all Alliance-Atlantis krap television productions? 3. The tanking of that *Monopoly* currency of yours? 4. U.S. adoption of le Metric system? 5. The U.S. normalizing relations with Castro? 6. The U.S. paying off its obligations in the Treaty of Paris to all the descendents of the disenfranchised Loyalists (then again, we should charge you'all for the Restoration on the White House since your forces torched it in the War of 1812)? 7. Americans beginning every sentence with "eh"? (much like the British start off everything with "right"). 8. Americans actually bothering to find Canada on a map (why should we?)? 9. The U.S. dropping the prohibition on accepting titles from the British Monarchy (I'd cheer that actually)? 9. Americans no longer mocking that "sport" you call curdling (isn't that what cheese does?)? 10. Martin Short for President? C'mon, what's your wishlist anyways? Don't you feel pretty lame that you have no forces in Iraq, yet Poland has commandos fighting? :)
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What? linux is linux... a mandrake user ca just as easily type tar-xzvf blablabla; make; make install; vi /etc/XF86Config
if a linux user cant do something as basic as this, they need to buy a mac.
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Sorry...but even though I love Mandrake and think is it the finest distro out there, when their gov't puts my brothers in arms lives in jeopardy, I have to say "No Thanks" Looks like I will be waiting for RedHat
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By scheduling a 9.x release skipping their 8.1 and 8.2 updates?
Does anyone else find this interesting/amusing, seeing as Mandrake is largely a tuned repackaging of RedHat.
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