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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!"
With too many ideas, people will just modify a distro to do something better, different, etc.
I vote for an assisted "roll your own cd distro"
pick the packages by group/subgroup/individually and create install/hw detection scripts and roll an iso image.
There is NO value add to most distrobutions.
Just additional install voodoo scripts.
This is my opinion based on what little I know and understand of the rumors and lies Thanks, Randal
I'm still compiling my Gentoo whereas I could get Mandrake installed within 1 hour.
I'm a club member for two years, and my membership will expire today. I will not renew.
Several Years Ago Mandrake was in financial difficulties because of poor management. They created MandrakeClub to offer those who liked the distribution an opportunity to help support the company with the kickback of having the voices of the paying customer heard. For at least the past 9 months, this has not been the case. MandrakeClub has become a representativeless moneyhole where loyal paying customers are given the shaft. The idea of RPM voting was a good one, but the most popular RPMs were never packaged. In what was to become a common theme, paying customers were being totally ignored.
Today holds the ultimate example of why I won't be renewing. Club members have been asking for ftp servers as the bittorrent releases don't work. Well, once again they've decided not to listen ot their loyal paying customers and released the 10.0 distro to the Club members - via bittorrent. This is a horridly slow innefective solution. For paying customers, the proper thing to do is offer password protected FTP servers.
Now I know that lots of people think bittorrent is a great idea, but it isn't. Only Club members get the torrents, and right now it looks like it might get downloaded here by next week. The club simply isn't big enough to support bittorrent releases. Bittorrent releases would be a good idea for the non-paying public, but it is a most crappy way to treat loyal paying customers. I'm currently getting less than 10kB/s down using bittorrent.
In 6 months, when Mandrake is again scraping the bottom of the financial barrier, I will not shed a tear for their demise. The developers are good, but the management is horrible. Anyone who treats loyal paying customers as crappily as Mandrake does ends up in the annals of history as yet another failed company.
And them's the facts.
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