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Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Ready For Download

Posted by timothy on from the critics-be-damned dept.

joestar writes "The new Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community has just showed up on Mandrake's FTP mirrors and through Bittorrent. MandrakeClub Members benefit from extra CDs downloads and even a DVD ISO for Corporate Memberships! Another good news for the Mandrake community is an announce from Mandrakesoft that due to the stock resumed trading on Euronext on last Monday, with a nice increase of +10.00% in three days." Update: 03/11 06:23 GMT by T : Cheap ISOs are also available from merchants like OSDisc.com and CheapBytes.

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  1. KDE 3.2! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has KDE 3.2, which is worth an upgrade all in itself! KDE 3.2 is a worth while upgrade, for any distro, not just Mandrake. I have it on Gentoo, and it sure kicks the crap out of XP on the dark side of my pc.

    1. Re:KDE 3.2! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Speed, KDE 3.2 is a lot faster in this release. Windows XP is not as fast. Responsiveness too, look and feel is KDEs biggest strength, with over 11 different styles to choose from. unlike the kludge of Windows XP theming, which dosen't work a lot of the time. Certainly usabillity. Windows XP has made a lot of mistakes, I prefer KDE because it is better than 98/2000 but without errors of XP. KDE's best kept secret of course is the Control Center, you can make KDE do almost anything with it.

    2. Re:KDE 3.2! by leviramsey · · Score: 4, Informative

      It does... Even though it's tagged as "3.2.0" it's really 3.2.1 (all the fixes from CVS have been integrated).

  2. Re:Does it have Kernel 2.6? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From their features page:

    System overview

    Mandrakelinux 10.0 features the following software:

    Kernel 2.6.3
    XFree86 4.3
    Glibc 2.3.3 with Native POSIX Threads Library (NPTL) support
    GCC 3.3.2
    Apache 2.0.48, Samba 3.0.2, MySQL 4.0.18
    ProFTPD 1.2.9, Postfix 2.0.18, OpenSSH 3.6.1p2
    KDE 3.2, GNOME 2.4.2, IceWM 1.2.13
    OpenOffice.org 1.1, KOffice 1.3, Gnumeric 1.2.6
    Mozilla 1.6, The GIMP 1.2.5, XMMS 1.2.9

  3. Re:What's the legal status of the DVD? by ttldkns · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mandrake makes a point of it being a totally GPL distro.

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  4. Re:ATI Radeon problem? by SpacePunk · · Score: 4, Informative

    chromi is dead slow unless you install the x drivers for the card that use hardware acceleration. it was dead slow on my nvidia cards till I did this.

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  5. Re:What's the legal status of the DVD? by joestar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mandrakelinux is totally Open Source / Free Software, but of course all components aren't covered by the GPL! (all Mandrakesoft's own code do though).

  6. Re:Any chance of a cd-live version? by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yep, it's already out out and on the mirrors next to the Mandrake 10 ISOs. It's called MandrakeMove.

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  7. Re:What does "Community" mean? by homer_ca · · Score: 5, Informative

    This should explain it:

    What follows is the development process for our next major release, Mandrake Linux 10.0:

    1) After the traditional debugging of several Beta and Release Candidates, the final version of "Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community" will be released in February/March. This version will be available for download and as a DVD-set through e-Commerce.

    2) Then a Mandrake Linux 10.0 Stable branch will be opened, based on Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community. Security updates and bug fixes will be applied to this tree and will be publicly available in real time.

    3) Two or three months later, in April/May, "Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official" will be created from the Mandrake 10.0 Stable branch. It will then be packaged for several products such as the Mandrake Linux PowerPack. Mandrake 10.0 Official ISO images will also be available for all contributors and Club Members; then, after a short delay, Mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Download Edition will be made available on public FTP mirrors.

  8. Re:Torrent bah! by Yosho · · Score: 4, Informative

    I like the idea of Torrent, but it simply doesn't work.

    Yes, it does.

    The protocol is designed to make your download rate roughly proportional to your upload rate; however, when you start a file you have nothing to upload, so it lets you download for a while with no consequences. Shortly afterwards, however, it begins uploading rapidly in order to make up for that. If you were to leave it on for longer than 15 minutes, it probably would've began improving rapidly. Also, if you're behind a firewall, you should forward incoming connections on ports 6881 through 6889 to your computer.

    Also, if you have a connection where the upstream is much lower than than the downstream -- such as a typical ADSL or Cable connection -- keep in mind that if your upstream bandwidth is saturated, you won't be able to download anything with any success. If you need to restrict your upstream bandwidth, try this alternate client. I find that a cap of 10 or 15 kB/s is good on a connection with 128kbps upstream.

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