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Mandrake 9.2 RC1
RabidChipmunk writes "Mandrake 9.2RC1 is out. Go get it with bit-torrent and speed up my download. I like the idea that posting to Slashdot could actually speed up a download. It seems so wrong." If you're on a slow pipe, don't underestimate the throughput of the postal system. Mark Walker writes "Mandrake Linux 9.2 RC1 is appearing on mirrors as I type this. We're currently downloading it from Mandrake, for http://www.budgetlinuxcds.com."
are there any previews of this? Screenshots?
Used mandrake few years ago, it was too bloated for my taste but I'd recommend it to anyone willing to try linux.
Seriously. What are we supposed to talk about in this thread?
RC1 = Release Candidate #1
Usually followed by RC2 etc ...
I know Mandrake absolutely rocks, but isn't this a bit to much, making a /. story out of the first RC ??
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
What's new with Mandrake in this release? I didn't see anything in the story brief and I am too lazy to search for the info. I don't follow this distro (Im a RedHat user) but I would like to know what warrants a RC release story on the front of Slashdot. Is there some sort of whizbang feature that I don't know I need to have? Enlighten me!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Dont just "steal" Linux, join the club and help pay for development of future versions of Linux Mandrake.
This company is in serious financial trouble right now and they NEED our help, so if you download and like Mandrake please join the club! By joining the club you are helping yourself, you are going to get better higher quality software so consider it an investment in your own future.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
So for home use - Mandrake has always been the sweet spot - excellent NTFS support out of the box as well just generally very user friendly interface... not the heavyweight server backend that other distros are... My 2 cents...
Care to enlighten me on what you mean by "excellent NTFS support"? As in, what sets Mandrake apart from all the other distro's NTFS support?
Seeing as how, you either have it enabled in the kernel, or you don't, it's not like one distro can have _better_ support for it than another... or is there something I'm not getting?
I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
Linux is open source, its not a "product" its code. You pay for the development of the code, you dont pay for a license to run the prooduct.
You arent helping the open source movement or mandrake by buying from a store, they make more money when you pay them directly and you pay alot less money. Also its a more stable form of income for you to subscribe considering they open source they dont make money from license fees, so you have to support the developers.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Not everybody is on broadband and not all advertising is evil.
If I was on a slow connection, $2 a CD would seem an absolute bargain/life-saver.
"Looked like it would be nice and simple for people who were just starting out with Linux.....but unfortunately all that only gets in the way when you're actually trying to do something meaningful with your installation."
Eh?
You're not compelled to use all of Mandrake's GUI and command-line tools all the time. If you find the GUI tools restrictive, then use the normal vi/emacs/iptables/ifconfig/whatever...... provided in exactly the same manner as on every other Linux distribution.
Mandrake's tools are provided in addition to the standard unix/GNU/Linux utilities - not instead of them.
I don't get these types of posts. First its as if there's a presumption that Linux should be hard to use in order to be taken seriously. Then there seems to be the insinuation that because its easy(er) to use its somehow lost the 'power' of other less user friendly distributions.
I'd be curious to hear what exactly are the lacking features? I've been using Linux since 1998 and tried quite a few distro's before deciding on Mandrake (Redhat, Debian, Caldera *long before SCO*, FreeBSD, Gentoo, etc). They all function basically the same. My desktop has always been Blackbox, bash is set and gcc is standard.
If your don't like Mandrakes configuration tools you've got all the standard tools: XFree86configuration, Netconf, Vi. I'm not sure of a single package that you can get on another distro that you can't on Mandrake and you can certainly compile anything else you'd like.
To me Mandrake is simple a better thought out distribution, but with all the flexibility of a Linux distribution it can be as full featured or as limited as you'd like.
Quack, quack.
Mandrake is also available for Macs (LinuxPPC), isn't it? ;)
You see, there's still an Apple connection! They probably should've mentioned in the story to avoid confusion though, but you know how the Slashdot editors are.
Now just hold your breath to see if the next one is also a Mac story.
i have used drake since 7.0. i have bought 7.0, 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0 so feel that leeching an iso or two is not horrible. however, are they still viable? i love it. i can just use it like a mind numbed idiot, or use it like a geek, and not have to worry. and urpmi is awesome. but with RH snarfing up most of the server biz, and suse seeming to get most of the rest of the press, is drake commercially viable. deb, gentoo, slack will always be around. but their not "commercial" distros. drake does such great jobs with their wizards and hardware, but is investing time and effort into drake pissing into the wind. i hope not, since i've used drke for years. but...
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Journalists tend not to blindly run press releases. Even then, they're clearly tagged. This one wasn't.
Or, if you wish to see it this way, it's news that Intel thinks it's got a newsworthy product.
By that incredibly low standard, there's no commercial that's *not* news. So it defeats the purpose of having a disctinction. I'm not buying it.
That mandrake 9.2rc1 is out is news, and that there's a company that'll burn a CD and fedex it to you is also news.
If this company were new,I'd agree. It's not. Therefore, it's not news. It's an advertisement attached to a story.
The same thing happened about 5 years ago to the LA Times. They ran a story about the staples center, new home of the Lakers, near a story about the lakers. The Staples story was bought. It wasn't labeled as such. The LA Times was lambasted by the major journalism associations. They later apologized.
Naturally, this begs the question: was the mandrake thing just a friendly plug, or can those be bought too?
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Just because a distro has KDE and 100 services, doens't mean you should start them all on your 166MMX.
..), you could have tried a minimal Mandrake install and done your configuration manually, and been up and running in under a day ...
In general, no distro is faster or more bloated than any other (some compile with fewer features, and thus may have a slight edge, until you need the feature
So, is this going to be a worthwhile investment of my time, or is some/most of the above going to stop working? While I'd like to get off my MS Habit, I have this need to use most of the above that keeps pulling me back :-)
If you "just" want to give it a try, please, PLEASE, don't install the RC, but wait until the final release is made. Even better, wait some weeks (2-3) after final release for the most important glitches to be known and read the errata before you are going to install.
The RCs aren't for "newcomers" to try out. They for are testing and bug fixing by people willing investing the time to do so.
But if you want to get the best chance that the final will support as much as possible on your notebook and you are willing to invest some time, then by all means, install it, test everything that matters to you and report any bugs you find (but be sure to look beforehand if the bug is already known).
So, whether the investment of your time is worthwhile depends on your view. If you are not willing, are not interested or simply don't have the time for testing/bug reporting, the RC isn't for you. Well, it wasn't ever meant for you.
Else, now is the time to get involved before it is too late (for getting any updates in before the freeze gets to freezy - they are already in version freeze).
Keep an eye on which arguments are silently dropped in replies. Not always, but often times it's very telling.