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Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available
joestar writes "Since LG has released updated firmwares and a recovery procedure for all so-called ATAPI LG cd-rom drives that were "destroyed" by a feature of Mandrake 9.2, MandrakeSoft has publicly released the set of Mandrake 9.2 ISO images which are now available on a number of FTP mirrors. Mandrake 9.2 is one of the few remaining 100%-OSS major Linux distributions, so considering a MandrakeClub membership or joining Cooker - Mandrake's open development version - is certainly an excellent idea."
Here's the feature list.
Mandrake is good stuff, and getting better every release. Kudos!
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
You are of course corrct, Mandrake users are fags. They should stick with Windows to find their gay porn.
Debian and BSD are the only ways to go.
-Kernel 2.4.22 (a Linux 2.6.0pre kernel is also provided in contribs)
-Net code 6.1 which halves ping times
-XFree86 4.3 (including long-delayed support for scroll mice!)
-Glibc 2.3.2 -GCC 3.3.1 (no more pointer errors, the Turing-complete code self-checker works great)
Yeah....
Dunno about you, but I don't recall previous releases destroying CD-ROM drives firmware.
I'm pretty sure I didn't hear of SUSE or RedHat doing this.
Mandrake is, and always has been, buggy at best. It's good if you want an adventure.
Because Gnome is too buggy.
/gnu/celeron gnu/packard gnu/bell gnu/box.
Ever since Gnome 2.4 was released, I have found more and more gnome zealots who MUST absolutely advocate GNOME at every possible moment. Don't get me wrong, I use gnome for my servers (for GUI admin), but Gnome really has problems for other stuff. Here is a guide to some of their claims, and what they really mean.
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with your source code.
Nautilus is much better than konqueror.
Wrong, if your using nautilus for anything more than a simple finder clone you can forget it. No split screen, no ioslaves and forget about being able to have a decent file dialog, not to forget that it is as unstable as hell and is STILL slow on >3 Ghz machines.
Gnome is easier to use
Yep, nothing like using gconf-editor to edit all except the most trivial of settings. Want tear off menus? Want a useable file dialog? You won't find it here.
Gnome has eye candy
Yes, my pirated Win32 fonts with the patent infringing font renderer. Bit stream vera sans looks like Tahoma put through a shreadder! Of course I still reboot into windows to print using "Comic Sans MS.
Gnome has a new web browser
Yawb! Along with Galeon, mozilla, thunderbird, konqueror, atlantis, lynx, netscape and w3m. Yes I need another browser! Not to mention that its got a religiously offensive name and it dosen't allow bookmark folders. It also crashes like a crazy! Apple chose khtml for a REASON! its stable and light!
Gnome is themeable
Yep, choose from High, low and medium contrast, default, and clean ice. Wan't to change the colour scheme? USE GCONF NOOB, plus if you complain about it we will tell you to fuck off and go back to Windows or KDE.
Gnome has multimedia framework
Its a kludge of esd combined with broken xine libraries. No wonder it crashes all the time and dosen't work on 95% of video files
Gnome allows mac like operation.
x86 compatible 1 button mice are almost impossible to find, and it dosen't copy the whole macbar concept. Not to even mention their auto apply implementation is broken and dangerous! Plus if they did actually come anywhere close to copying the Mac the C&D letters would come flying up their asses.
Gnome is GNU software.
gnu/Yay, gnu/gnome gnu/for gnu/my gnu/debian gnu/linux gnu/500mhz
Inspired by the gentoo translate-o-matic.
wow! I didn't know that you were a backdoor kind of guy.
So tell me, I'm a raging heterosexual. usually having 2-3 women at once...
are you the kind that takes it all the time? dresses like the girl and act's all lady like?
I kind of figured you to be that kind... the flaming queer type loving to be the wide end or reciever...
gawd, you kind of fags make me sick... wanting to see people get doorknobs shoved up their butts...
It's very easy: Red Hat has dropped support for it's Free Software Linux distribution, and wants Fedora to be the replacement for Red Hat Linux as you know it. SuSE is not an OSS Linux distribution. Slack is dying :-( Now your choice for major Linux distribs is: Debian or Mandrake. And maybe Knoppix in the future.
Let's talk about *major* Linux distributions:
:-(
> or Fedora
Make your proof.
> or Gentoo
Not a major distro, and Mandrake recently outperformed it in a comparative.
> or Debian
OK.
> or SuSE (ftp install)
Major, but proprietary-spirit distro.
> or Slackware
Currently dying
> or Vector
Never heard from it.
> or Knoppix
Maybe a future big one, but still not a major one.
> or one of the thousands of others
Agreed (for distrowatch.com).
Oh my god, the people they let post.
Considering that RMS seems to think even Debian isn't really a Free Software(tm) distro, I find it difficult to image that Mandrake qualifies.
On the 9.2 comparison chart you can clearly see that every version of Mandrake other than the Download edition includes plenty of proprietary software.
Take a look at the M's in Debian's non-free section and compare it to Mandrake's package list.
Don't get me wrong. Most of what I know about GNU/Linux I learned on Mandrake. Implying that it's the last of the free software distros is comical though.
RTFM fucking n006
Excellent - thank you! I'm currently doing my bit - download speed is about half my upload, which is maxed out (on a 512/256Kbps ADSL line).
This'll be the third distro I've tried in almost as many days. Despite being a long-time 'drake user, when I heard about the problem, I thought it perhaps best to try another distro (I have an LG drive myself).
Gentoo came with 49 pages of installation instructions. 49. Now, I'm no newbie - my first Linux install was Slackware 3.something back in '97. I downloaded it at college and took it home on floppies - lots of floppies. But Gentoo I simply couldn't be bothered with - I got it installed, rebooted, saw a ton of module loading errors and booted back to Windows to download something else.
That something was Fedora Core 1. Installed fine, booted, everything working - except, it didn't recognise my ADSL modem (Speedtouch USB Home, the frog one). Okay, fine - back to Windows, downloaded some stuff, back to Fedora. What do you mean, "fs type ntfs isn't supported by this kernel"?! Apparently RedHat (and so Fedora) is the only distro that doesn't include the ntfs module. Thanks for that, guys.
Well, I can't be bothered, frankly. I'm going back to Mandrake, which I know supports my ntfs partition and ADSL modem out of the box (as it were). These days, while I'll happily make the effort to get stuff configured just the way I want it, I will *not* waste that much time just getting something installed, and with Mandrake, I don't have to.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
yes, and only LAMERS make stupid coments like "MAndrake is a stoopid noob distro, real leet hax0rz use gent00 biotch."
I may be a troll, but I'm a damn good one. I got you to reply, AND I got called gay, and stupid. Pretty damned impressive. Slashdotters are so easy to troll.