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

Namechange?

[dmp123]

What happened about the namechange?

We had an article on /. a while back saying that MDKsoft had to change their name due to some French wizard cartoon or similar (I didn't RTFA, of course ;)!

Is this now resolved?

David

Re:Namechange?

[joestar]

If you look at all the 10.0 press releases and features page, you'll see that they slightly changed the wording: "Mandrake Linux" is now written "Mandrakelinux", "MandrakeStore" is written "Mandrakestore" and so on...

Re:Too many linux distros

[Pingular]

Call me a troll, but I think it would really help the OSS community if we focused our efforts on one or two distros, not 10 or 20.
There aren't 10 or 20 distros, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, and the reason there's so many is because different people want different things, for example Debian is better at running webservers on than Mandrake. If the two distros were spliced together, the package would be much bigger, and most people would only use half of it anyway.

Re:Too many linux distros

[Abcd1234]

Why? The various distros exist because different people have different needs and different ideas about the way things work. If all those people tried to focus on one or two distros, all they'd do is disagree, meaning no progress would be made, and they'd probably just end up forking.

Another way to look at it is from a project management standpoint: adding new bodies to a project does not mean the project will progress faster or improve. In fact, more bodies can actually *decrease* productivity. So, "focusing" all that effort into just one or two projects may not be an effective way to make use of resources.

Lastly, don't forget, competition is a key to innovation. Having various distros competing for market share means they'll compete, and cooperate, meaing a better result for everyone. How can this be bad?

This is a strength!

[oldosadmin]

Having many distros is a -strength- of linux, not a hinderance.

We don't need less distros, we need some idea of continuity between them using standards, such as:
-Standard packaging system (no more .rpm, .deb. .tgz... just one type)
-Standard directory structure

There are some others, but these are the major two. More distros = good, but lets try to package them all similarly, please!