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Mandrake 9.2b1 Released, 2.6 Test Kernel in Cooker
DCowern writes "Mandrake today announced 9.2 beta 1 of their distribution. More interestingly, Mandrake has included a test version of kernel 2.6 in cooker (their development version). It's dated 27 July so it should be on all the cooker mirrors in the RPM2 directory by now. If you can't find it on your favorite mirror, it's definitely on ftp.sunet.se."
Better yet, Bruha points to BitTorrent files for the 1st 2nd, and 3rd ISOs, and a link to the Mandrake 9.2 wiki, writing "Note that the beta1 installation uses the same kernel as 9.1 did, so if you had problems installing 9.1, you may want to wait for beta2 (which will use an updated kernel)."
... note that this guy at redhat is tracking the test releases with redhat-installable RPMs, over RH9.
If you try it, note that you must upgrade modutils and some other packages given in the link. Many modules have changed names, like usb-ohci.o -> ohci-hcd.ko so you will need to do some screwing around. I have been running test1 then test2 for a couple of weeks from the link on top of Redhat 9 and it has been working very nicely.
I think so.
Word on various boards seems to be that the 2.6 kernel is much faster than 2.4.x. People are claiming improvements of up to 50% in some operations.
Of course, these are early adopters, most of them with single cpu machines. I haven't heard of anyone testing it for robustness or stability in a high-end environment yet.
Anyone else got word on it's performance or bugs?
Sorry to post to myself, but I was wrong about Mamdrake being the first major distro to supply the 2.6 kernel. Red Hat has had an RPM for a few weeks.
Well, not really, gentoo has had the option since 2.6.0-test1 came out. The portage tree is wonderfully updates within a few hours with the main branch and others (mm, aa, ac, ck, ...), so the only thing you need to do is check out /usr/portage/sys-kernel and decice which one you want to have at install time (or later, if you're upgrading like me)
read this
Mandrake Linux 9.2 Beta 1 has arrived to offer you the opportunity of an entertaining summer bug squashing. Ranking of this next Mandrake, as for level of refinement, is partly in your hands. Join forces with the Mandrake Development team! Install the Beta and send your reports. Remember however that this is an experimental distribution not suitable to everyday-tasks machines. Take care.
Thats from Mandrake's website.
Jeeze...RTFA next time. Or go look up the definition of BETA software.
Snoozer.
Sure, the default is KDE, usually with GNOME also (would you prefer newbies straight from Windows to be dumped into ion?), but you can uncheck KDE and GNOME during installation in the main package selection (this has been the case as long as I can remember, so at least since 7.0), and installing a different one is trivial. Plus, they all work out-the-box from whichever display manager you use, and most of them have the consistent Mandrake menus throughout.
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If you don't want KDE, all you have to do is uncheck one pretty obvious checkbox
There distribution was alway profitable. It was there other business which pushed them into the equivalent of chapter 11.
I have been using OO 1.1 now for 6 months or so. Its beta - but it is very stable. Some of the features (print to pdf) make it worth including it in the distro now.
Also does anyone know if they have included the Ximain OO hacks for OO?