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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.
Release Candidate 2 is being served from most of these servers.
I've already sucked it down from the German mirror (no longer listed on Mandrake's site) and I'm burning the 3rd disk and starting a test install shortly... w00t!
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Mandrake put up a release notice on their site over 2.5 hours ago, and the mirrors list has been dynamically updated as access and load changed. The German mirror (ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de) is no longer listed and accepting connections, however I was able to pull the three disks down at about 360 kB/s average. ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/iso/ was also fairly rapid, but was overloaded before the Esslingen server was.
There are currently no North American servers listed for the i586 ISOs, many still carry the RC images however.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Nope 9.1 is back to 650 mb cd images for this verry reason
Actually, the Mandrake website says the new version supports "Re-sizing of Windows FAT partitions" but that NTFS support is strictly read-only, which sucks. You got my hopes up there for a while.
barzelay.net
Anyone on I2 can get them from here:
http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/
I'm currently grabbing all 3 ISO's at 350k/sec.
Paid in full when they helped us fight the Brits to begin with. Ignorant parrot.
We are not IGNORING GNOME menu layout..
It simply doesn't fit our needs (and we have the same objections for KDE menu layout)..
And if you don't like Mandrake menu layout, run menudrake and choose "Original menu style" in Menu Style dialog.. You'll have to create a new foot menu on your panel, due to limitation in gnome-panel..
Eh, 2.4 has been out a long time too but the kernel isn't the only piece of software that can be buggy in a distribution. Saying that there are few bugs is based on trying the release candidates and staying up to date with cooker before the release. In 9.1 most things really work and they do it well. That cannot be said for all Mandrake releases in the past. 9.0 had some issues for example, the worst of them being that supermount was broken. Having used all the release candidates and the final from cooker I can say that 9.1 has less bugs than 9.0 or 8.1 for example. I'd say it seems to be of the same high quality that 8.2 was. Definitely the best Mandrake release I've used.
Considering the small number of people that actually voted for Bush when compared to total number of people in the country... I would consider it very stupid to blame *all* American citizens for the actions of the goof ball in office.
Same goes for citizens of any other government. Last I checked... the French gov't didn't "take a vote" about the matter to see how the citizens felt... and, even if they did... It is unlikely everyone voted the same.
So... stop being so stupid. You have absolutely no idea how Mandrake (the company) feels about the issue... and they (the company) don't represent the individual employees.
My point being that very few people in this world have one bit of say what their "representatives" do or say in the large. You don't have a say, not if you are in the US... George has already said that he isn't taking a poll... he doesn't give a damn what you think or want.
Any alignment between your wants and desires and his are pure fucking coincidence... and the sooner everyone realized that... the better.
And while I'm on a roll...
To all those "Americans" that have a problem with war protesters... It is a free country.
Don't like it?
Leave.
Companies should be companies. Governments should be governments. And never the two should meet...
If you run MenuDrake, you can tell the system to use the standard Gnome menus. The change takes effect on next login.
The greatest thing about Mandrake 9.X is that it completely eliminates dependency issues... rpms are easy to install for those that don't wish to compile from source.
I've been running a cooker version of 9.X for many months and even that is surprisingly stable.
This is the kind of OS package worth paying for!
according to Jean-Michel Dault:
Now, I haven't followed this closely so I don't know if that's a little or a lot. I do remember that one version of Windows (2000? XP?) had over 64K bugs when it was released, so compared to that it's an order of magnitude and a half better. But I don't know how bad each bug is in either case, either, so this isn't much of a comparison.
(Btw, the total of the three I ignored is 1848, so about half the reported bugs have been fixed. Again, no data on the severity of the fixed vs. open bugs...)
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
If you can't find a mirror that hasn't been slashdotted, try these links -
4 22 4|7422d9374a1bd9187254de638f47c7d3|| Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso|681279488 |9bc5687f06ecf26e1f767623dc8f6421|M andrake91-cd3-i18n.i586.iso|68157440 0|82530029d63b3624020fcc40aa9ad625|
ed2k://|file|Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso|68216
ed2k://|file
ed2k://|file|
and unlike ftp links, the more people that use these, the better.
I'd like to know why Mandrake is behind in an area that is *very* important to the desktop user.
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Make that "was" instead of "is". And it was only Redhat that was ahead (really), the proprietary distros (Lindows etc) apparently just licensed the Apple patent, which shouldn't bother you if you are not in the US, since you could just get a better freetype from the PLF.
But that is no longer the case, fonts on 9.1 rock, although it might have been nice to be able to include freetype2.1.4
BitTorrent Link of Mandrake 9.1 <-- You need BitTorrent to click here.
Download BitTorrent Here or `apt-get install bittorrent` on debian, and I think there is a port for it for you FreeBSD people.
Anyone who wants to get this file, should try using BitTorrent to get it. It is a file swarming application that helps everyone get the file by uploading pieces of the file you have already downloaded. It should transfer faster, and the best part is, everyone gets the file faster than the Mandrake FTP site, which I am sure has limited bandwidth.
Props to the other people mentioning BitTorrent.
You can't see this if you have sigs turned off.
I have to point out that I ran into several problems with the RPMS2 (aka Contrib) dir on all the mirrors I tried : libgcrypt*.rpm have wrong md5 sums and the synthesis file contain incorrect version info on the dillo package (0.7.1.2-1 instead of 0.7.0-1) which prevents urpmi from working properly.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.