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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."
No content in the links....just a link to the .tor's and some cd seller. Hello editors?
No more Micro$oft bashing from me. Its like bashing at the special olympics.
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...
Yes if you want to support Mandrake give them money.
But if you want to support the various apps and projects give them money directly.
I think the work done on gnome, kde and X are more likey important to a typical user.
If you want that to improve put your money there, not on the guys making a distribution.
Without a lot of experience with various distributions I cannot agree or disagree, but I can say this:
We are using Mandrake 9.1 to push (finally) into some Linux installs at work in a classically Windows only environment. Overall, it has been a success.
We have two basic flavors of machines we build with Mandrake 9.1: "surveillance" boxes, and LAMP servers.
Surveillance boxes have 6 to 8 LCD monitors and are running icewm, or KDE (not decided yet), with Xinerama enabled. These boxes are replacing Windows NT machines that used Exceed to run X applications. Now they natively run on the Xfree86 server, and they work great with Xinerama and all those monitors. POW! No more Windows licenses! POW! No more Exceed licenses! These boxes use a single (AGP) Matrox G550 running two heads, and then four to six (PIC) TNT2 cards to bring the machine up to six or eight monitors total. These machines are appliance like, if one dropped, we build another to replace it, lickety split.
Our LAMP servers are more simple.. built in (single head) motherboard video, networking, and a single IDE hard drive. Cron'd rsyncs back up our data off the LAMP servers and onto another Linux box for "up to the hour" protection.
Installing Mandrake is interesting! You can do the same sequence of events on different motherboard types, and end up with different packages installed on the machine. (I kid you not.) "Ummm, no rsh this time!" etc. So, we have carefully written installation procedures which also check that every package we use was installed, and install if it not.
Overall, I've got to give Mandrake Installer a B+ or A-, it does work, it's fast. Just gotta watch which packages get put on. By the way, we dont let Mandrake install the LAMP stuff, we do that manually after the machine is up and running.
New web site up on how to set up mandrake 9.1 to ease the configuration pains of the new linux user. Written and catered for the moderate computer user. It covers how to get and install mandrake and add in most of the needed applications. Covers most of the major software included in the distribution, other freely available applications, newbie command line tutorial, how to handle some common and annoying bugs peculiar to each application.
PART I
1. Introduction
2. Indispensable Tools for the Linux User
3. Useful links
PART II - Mandrake Installation
1. Getting Mandrake 9.1
2. Installing Mandrake 9.1
3. Going through the install sequence
4. Using Mandrake
5. Nice things to add easily
6. Configuration with Mandrake Control Center
7. Configuration with Gnome Control Center
8. Important Configuration of Menus and MIME Types
9. More Advanced Configuration
PART III - Linux Shell and Apps
1. Navigating around terminal
2. Shells -- bash, csh, rsh, sh
3. Environments and Paths
4. File Permissions
5. Editing files
6. Linking
7. Finding Files
8. Using grep
9. Basic bash scripts knowledge
10. Running Remote X applications
11. Mounting Remote File Systems
12. Language setup for man pages
13. Handling Print Jobs
PART IV - Software Packages
1. What are packages?
2. Specifying Sources For Online Downloading - Mandrake Mirrors, Texstar, PLF
3. Packages to be installed from Mandrake CDs - Mesa, mplayer, Timidity, pan, gaim, mozplugger
4. Packages to install from Texstar - Macromedia Flash, nano, Real Player
5. Mplayer and Codecs
6. Other essential packages- Open Office, Sun Java, Adobe Acrobat 5, BitTorrent
7. Setting up SMB share for Windows
8. Using vncserver for remote desktop applications
9. File Sharing - p2p networks - Limewire, edonkey, lmule
10. Running M$ Office under Linux.
11. Games - SNES, MAME, WineX
PART V - Advanced FAQ
1. How do I get DRI 3D acceleration to work?
2. Mandrake Fonts Deuglification and Anti-aliasing
3. Email Clients and Web Browsers (Handling mailto: and http:)
4. Full Mozilla Plugins Configuration (Quicktime, Java, Flash, Mplayer)
5. Konquerer Plugins Configuration
6. X Windows xmatrix screensaver
7. How to adjust the sound volume permanently
This HOWTO is my first contribution to the linux user community, and since I have found documentation sorely lacking for the total newbie, I have decided to write one myself. It is based on my experience in the past month trying to install everything from scratch. This HOWTO will be short, brief and to the point. Further information can be found in documentations on other websites, this one is just for the impatient, and users who want to reduce their startup time. Why Mandrake? Firstly, it is easy-to-install, and the first distribution that I've tried that has come very close to the ease-of-use of windows. If you can install and customize windows, you will not have much trouble with the Linux installation. Who is this HOWTO written for? This document is meant for the average user who is at least accustomed to tweaking and customizing their own OS. It will definitely not be a tutorial on how to point and click or use GUI interfaces.