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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.
its a dupe
Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
...and I know this cause I am ass fucking him doggy style in my dungeon right now. I hear he loves ass2mouth and I am gonna find out here in a second.
Red Hat has just issued a press release that states that Red Hat Linux 9.2 was released three days ago. A spokesman for the company said: "We always one up our competitors, sometimes we just let people know about it later."
The more linux progresses,the more money hungry they become,like some sort of sneaky VIRUS.
Thang God for Microsoft.
As an American I refuse to pay for French software. I have used Mandrake for years and will continue to do so via download. If the French ever decide to pull their heads out of their ass, maybe I'll change my mind.
http://sjoel.com/
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
Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
Incomplete thoughts, bad spelling errors...Damn thats why i dont trype while smoking a cigarette. i knew that preview button was good for something.
(Though I did manage to spell Rendezvous right)
An even better idea: take the money you would have spent on this French product and donate it to an Iraqi dissident organization, or to a charity that assists the families of UK or US servicemen fallen in battle. I think you'll find you can live without Mandrake, and you'll sleep better without blood on your hands.
Yeah, the French server I'm downloading things from seems to be surrendering a lot.
Yeah, but I bet they're making a sh*tload of money selling to the Iraqis.
Don't get santimonious on me, limey. 100% of the terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001. My sentence was perfect worded. By definition, those terrorists, who were Muslim, had the guts to carry their terrorist schemes out. This is unlike you eurotrash, who do not have the guts to carry out your terrorist schemes.
Nowhere did I state nor imply that 100% of Muslims were terrorists.
As an aside, even though the British gov't is doing the right thing this one time, it is against the wishes of the limey "people." Therefore, you qualify as eurotrash just as much as the frogs and scat loving krauts.
Dear Professor Linux,
How can I keep from soiling my underpanties in a fit of apoplexy every time I hear wee French referred to as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?
Sincerely,
Francois "Vichy" P.
P.S. Why in the world do they call it "frenching"??? You know, "it".
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.
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" Richard Feynman
Well, too bad for 9.1
/mnt/cdrom instead. I can't use Konqueror to copy files from
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
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!!
Pay attention here... the french server was surrendering. Just like the french army.
Question: how many frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Answer: Nobody knows, it's never been done.
What kind of people would steal fungus from a starving pig's mouth and eat it themselves? The french.
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a french one behind me."
-- General George S. Patton
"Going to war without france is like going deer hunting without your accordion."
--Norman Schwartzkopf
"We can stand here like the french, or we can do something about it."
-- Marge Simpson
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
--Jacques Chirac, President of france
"As far as france is concerned, you're right."
--Rush Limbaugh,
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep france.
An old saying:
Raise your right hand if you like the french....
Raise both hands if you are french.
"I don't know why people are surprised that france won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq.
After all, france wouldn't help us get the Germans out of france!"
--Jay Leno
"The last time the french asked for 'more proof' it rolled into Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman
REPLACEMENTS FOR THE french NATIONAL ANTHEM:
"Runaway" by Del Shannon,
"Walk Right In" by the Rooftop Singers,
"Everybody's Somebody's" Fool by Connie Francis,
"Running Scared" by Roy Orbison,
"I Really Don't Want to Know" by Tommy Edwards,
"Surrender" by Elvis Presley,
"Save It For Me" by The Four Seasons,
"Live and Let Die" by Wings,
"I'm Leaving It All Up To You" by Donny and Marie Osmond,
"What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers,
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin
"Raise Your Hands" by Jon Bon Jovi
actually i truly do hate the french, started after a holiday in paris when we were treated like animals by just about everyone we met or hat to deal with.
as a result, i don't buy anything produced or assembled in france.
BUY mind you, downloading their work for free is fine by me.
... is what Monsieur Chirac says to his favorite Uncle Saddam! M. Chirac smiles, almost in a pleading manner, as if silently begging his Sugar Daddy Saddam to give his brave country even more lucrative Food For Oil contracts and nuclear power plant construction contracts.
"Nein! I like to eat his sperm BETTER!" interrupts Herr Schroeder immediately, peering anxiously at his Sugar Daddy Saddam, worried that his rival may gain even a temporary advantage in receiving the great leader's favor!
Little Monsieur Chirac and little Herr Schroeder get to feel like such big boys when they're around their favorite Uncle! They just wish they didn't have to have their Uncle's icky penis in their mouths so often! "Here," they both offer, chiming up at the same time, "take our wives, instead! You'll like them much better! Or how about our own children? Most of them are still underage! Anything you want, Uncle Saddam, you can certainly have. Because we're the LEADERS of our proud countries, each the product of CENTURIES of cultural progress!"