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.

Comments

Re:ISO images

[bobibleyboo]

Nope 9.1 is back to 650 mb cd images for this verry reason

Not resizing NTFS, only FAT

[davebarz]

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.

Re:Not resizing NTFS, only FAT

[nacs]

Not true. For file access within Mandrake, NTFS support has always been read only as writing is currently experimental and dangerous.

However, NTFS resizing is supported by Mandrake as the sourceforge NTFS team found a way to resize NTFS partitions safely.

Re:Not resizing NTFS, only FAT

[fobbman]

If you would have followed the story link you would have seen it say, specifically, "NTFS partition resizing" under Technical Improvements.

Re:Fukt Gnome menus

[fcrozat]

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..

Re:Fukt Gnome menus

[matthewn]

If you run MenuDrake, you can tell the system to use the standard Gnome menus. The change takes effect on next login.

no more hell... it's the greatest thing

[illegalien]

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!

Re:boycotting national Linux versions...

[testerus]

according to Jean-Michel Dault:

• Some facts you might want to know:
• • The Mandrake Linux boxes sold in the stores in the USA are not a French product, but an american-made product, since the boxes, CDs and manuals are manufactured by Pearson/Macmillan right in the US.
  • MandrakeSoft has developers all around the globe. The security updates are made by a Canadian, the I18N leader is in Belgium, the Documentation team has people in Quebec and Argentina, our kernel guy is in Spain, our LSB and DrakXterm guy is in Ohio... and I am Quebecois ;-)

Re:Few bugs... who could possibly say?

[Thing 1]

I just looked in BugZilla and doing a query on all the UNCONFIRMED, NEW, NEEDINFO, ASSIGNED, and REOPENED (ignoring the RESOLVED, VERIFIED and CLOSED bugs), there are 1459 bugs.

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...)

BitTorrent -- everyone helps everyone!

[Jamuraa]

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.