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:YOU ARE A DOUCHE!!!1

[Miguel de Icaza]

sorry, i run linux so i can't play quicktime (without mplayer and i can't install that without taking my debian machine miles & miles & miles out of stable)

i'll watch it tonight when i get home - i run windows XP Pro on my own box :^)

Mandrake....Let the french support them!!!

[slappy_guru]

Give to Debian or even Redhat..Don't support Distro's like Mandrake or SUSE that are based in weasel countries while our troops are dying for us.

Down with French and German "Weasels"!!!

Rant from USN vet.

A day late and a Franc short

[pair-a-noyd]

Well, too bad for 9.1
No, this is not a troll or flame bait. I LOVE Linux, I'm just frustrated
with Mandrake, and with good cause.

I've had enough trouble that I just purchased Suse 8.1

Flakey fonts, flakey video, flakey lilo, flakey sound, flakey you name it.
It was fun though, it was my training wheels, Mandrake got me going.
I've fought and fought with with it and just can't handle it any more.
When I discovered that they took some shortcuts on the kernel source and
header files to make it easier for THEM that was the straw that broke the
camels back. I've lost an entire month trying to get my VIVO card working
so I edit and begin producing some DIY home repair video tapes.

I've tried for weeks to get my VIVO card working and it will not work unless
I build a custom kernel. Nope, not gonna do it.

I loaded Suse up just as a trail run and it was beautiful, the fonts were
excellent, it was very crisp, very clean. I really liked the look and
feel. And the first thing it did was detect my Nvidia card and inform me
that they could not distribute drivers for legal reasons. It then asked me
if I wanted to connect to the Nvidia server to download and install the
drivers. I clicked yes and a few seconds later it informed that I needed
to restart X to begin using my newly installed drivers. I did and it was
great! I had total HELL getting them installed with Mandrake, I spent
weeks trying and printed a REEM of help files, forums, and readme's..

I had HELL with the on board AC97 sound card and stuck in a PCI sound card.
It still makes farting noises when I scroll graphics or try to scan with my
SCSI HP 4P scanner. I can't scan anything bigger than a postage stamp
without a kernel panic. Mandrake handles the interrupts on my brand new
mobo like shit.

Every other time I boot the fonts go from big to little. Web pages are so
damn tiny you can't read them. I have set the fonts, carefully too, and as
I said, sometimes they look great, sometimes they SUCK.

Mandrake Lilo sucks. It just SUCKS. 9 out of 10 times it will not boot.
I thought my hard drive was bad until I discovered that with Suse it would
boot 100% of the time using GRUB. So I dumped Mandrake lilo and and now it
boots everytime with grub.

Supermount superSUCKS. What total shit. I disabled it and just manually
mount the CD and floppy when I need it. Never could find UNMOUNT though.
I just eject /mnt/cdrom instead. I can't use Konqueror to copy files from
the CDR to HDD, I have to use MC.

All in all, all the problems FORCED me to dig in and learn. I'll always
remember Mandrake, and I'll still recomend it for beginners. It's an OK
system for people that never tinker with things. I have several friends
that use it and are very happy, they just click and drool. I set them up
to browse, download MP3's, burn music CD's, download pictures from usenet,
and email friends. It works fine for them and they are just hunkey dorey
happy. But they don't know any different, and they have NO desire to screw
around with it.

I HAVE to be on the bleeding edge because I have to have a hi-pref PC for
video production and I have to be several steps ahead of the people I
support so that I can answer their questions and fix their problems.

Mandrake is a good system for beginners if your needs are lightweight but if
you have to have a workhorse you better be prepared to do battle with it to
get it there and to keep it there. If you just want something other than
winblows for simple Internet use and as a first Linux box, Mandrake it OK.

It was fun but I must move up to a more serious distro.
No time for fiddling around, I have to go to work now.
Well Mandrake, all I can say is Auf Wiedersehen!!