Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community is Available

joestar writes "The new 'Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community' release has just been announced. It provides many new features including Linux 2.6.3, MagicDev, KDE 3.2, GNOME 2.4, a new Mandrakeonline service and others. Download ISOs are available through torrent for Club Members and 10.0 developers. A 10.0 DVD is also available at MandrakeStore. This a first step for this new exciting Mandrake, because in May, an Official version will appear, and both versions will officially be supported. Happy downloads!"

Comments

Re:First major distro with 2.6 kernel release

[cbozic]

The 2.6 Kernel comes with the alsa sound system built in. If you had to install alsa seprately before, this will be a welcome change.

Re:First major distro with 2.6 kernel release

[Shados]

Considering the change to the scheduler to make everything seem snappier, the increased ammount of drivers for newer hardware, all the performance enhancement... Even my mom would be able to tell the difference between 2.4 and 2.6 on day to day usage. Its just that good.

Re:Namechange?

[krammit]

They appealed the decision and, through the magic of the court system, the final decision on a name change is years away.

Noteworthy....

[dubdays]

One of the best things about the new Mandrake (to me, anyway) is that it's the first fully supported FREE distro that has Samba 3 built into it. In the past, Samba 3 was available for Mandrake, but support for it was flaky. Sure, you could fork out $1000 or more for Red Hat Enterprise, but why? Even SuSE 9.0 had Samba 2.2.x in it. While I'm sure there are things that need to be refined and will be fixed in the "Official" version, it's a great way for us Windows converts to get our feet wet with the new Samba, instead of learning the old way and having to change our approach with the major overhaul in version 3.

Just my 2 cents....

Re:Noteworthy....

[buchanmilne]

In the past, Samba 3 was available for Mandrake, but support for it was flaky.

As maintainer for Mandrake's samba packages, I take exception to that, considering 9.2 had samba-3.0.0 (granted, 3.0.0 had some isses) available in contrib, and parallel-installable, compiled against MIT kerberos-1.3.x, with mostly integrated smbldap-tools etc etc etc.

Anyway, packages that are 99% like those in 10.0 are also available on the samba mirrors, like:
http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packa ges/Man drake/RPMS/9.2/
http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/Bi nary_Packages/Man drake/RPMS/9.1/

Note, they are also compiled to install in parallel so as not to mess up installations for people who might use the urpmi media for 2.2.8a packages and by accident get 3.0.x ...

Anyway, you can install via urpmi (if you have 9.1/9.2 boxen):

# urpmi.addmedia samba-9.2 \
http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/ Man drake/RPMS/9.2/ with hdlist-ldap.cz
# urpmi samba3-server samba3-winbind


Hopefully I will get around to follow-ups of some documentation I did for samba-2.2.x which I think helped bring some cool features to Mandrake users.

Finally, there are also some nice additions (IMHO) to openldap (but one or two minor bugs that need to be fixed still ...). Makes the whole LDAP+Samba PDC and/or NT domain migration almost painless ...

BTW, this post seems to insist on putting a space between the n and d in Mandrake in the URLs ... remove it if it makes it to the page ...

Re:x86-64 support?

[kundor]

amd64 cooker is almost to 10.0. They're still working on the 2.6 kernel, and kde for amd64 seems permanently stuck at 3.1.4.

The best solution for now is to get the 9.2 amd64 isos, get on cooker servers and update everything (note, this won't be as easy as usual, you might have to manually urpmi a lot of packages), and then install the 2.6.3 kernel yourself.

If that's not something you're comfortable doing, waiting for the 10.0 amd64 iso to come out is probably a better idea. It may be a month or two though.