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Slackware 9.1RC 2 Out, Mandrake 9.2 Soon
Colin writes "The founder of Slackware, Patrick Volkerding, released version 9.1 RC-2 of the upcoming Slackware. Good ol' Slack comes with new versions of packages while the addition of the Swaret tool adds dependency checking on Slackware for the first time! Here is an enthusiastic preview of Slackware 9.1 with plenty of screenshots." And pacc points out that Mandrake 9.2 will soon be ready, but only for Mandrake Club members at first. "But it will soon come to a mirror near you(TM). Though by choosing to distribute it with BitTorrent, do they effectively limit the downloads for a limited release?"
It's a very interesting approach: Mandrake Club & contributors (developers, translators...) are thanked, while business (retail sales) is boosted!
Here is the full message posted on their website:
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Mandrake 9.2 ISOs available for Club and contributors in advance!
Next ISOs of Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition will be available for Club Members and all people who have contributed to the new version (including developers and translators), prior to retail packs and public download release.
This new policy was strongly suggested by Club Members for a long time. It is now possible to offer this opportunity with the new BitTorrent technology.
Mandrake 9.2 ISO images will be released in advance to Mandrake Club users, hopefully before October 15th, when all last tests will have been achieved.
Thanks to all people who made possible this new promising release of Mandrake Linux.
MandrakeSoft Team.
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Fortunately, there are plenty Linux distributions that are not slackware-like. It's good to see slackware to finally overcome this stone age limitation though.
Did anyone else read that as "Like many of the other geeks here, my testes are very peculiar."
Random is the New Order.
$echo Mac OS X | grep e
$
Sorry, no 'e' in there.