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

    I found two ways that the new Mandrake really kicks the crap out of XP.

    First: It's only the 2nd distro I've tried (out of maybe 20 MDK/SuSE/RH versions) in the past 2-3 years that has automagically detected my sound card. It's a terribly exotic 'Soundblaster Live! 5.1' card. How do I know it detected it? Why, that SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE that won't stop coming out of my speakers. Kudos to the Mandrake team for being one of the only distros to find my soundcard without lots of modprobe and other very intuitive methods of detecting it.

    It also found the Samba printer shared off of my Wife's machine. I know this because it told me. None of the multiple test pages showed up, but hey, why would Mandrake lie about something like that?

    I don't know why I bothered. I'll probably download 10.1 when it comes out, have a bunch of problems, and give up again. Oh, at least this time GRUB doesn't disable my (standard, not USB) keyboard so I can't pick which OS to boot into 9/10 times. BONUS!

    It's all 100% true, though I'm sure I'll get

    1. modded down because I didn't say Linux is fantastic
    2. lambasted for only spending several hours trying to configure each distro before giving up in frustration (things generally worked better 2 years ago!)
    3. accused of using bizarre, grey market, very old or very new hardware (none of that is true)
    4. accused of not actually trying this because the public release wasn't until today and nobody checked alt.binaries.cd.image.linux