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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.

12 of 336 comments (clear)

  1. Thank you by Professor+Cool+Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    My Torrent is SOOO much faster
    THANKYOU /.

    kids, this is a Great example of the good side of the /. effect

    1. Re:Thank you by nolife · · Score: 5, Funny

      My download only has 287 hours to go.. I'm going to start my Gentoo install and see which one finishes first.

      --
      Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
  2. 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 prockcore · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would sure like to know more, than a mere blanket statement like , "KDE kicks crap out of so&so"

      I think he means that KDE is a bully, always beating up other OSes. It's rude, unfriendly, and difficult to control.

      Aparently, KDE's parents didn't give it enough attention when it was young.

  3. An increase of +10.00%? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I definitely prefer that to an increase of -10.00%!

  4. 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

  5. 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.

    --
    How many computers are too many?
  6. Mandrake XP? by An-Unnecessarily-Lon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am waiting on a non-numberd version. I almos bit with OS-X. But at the last second I realized it was a roman # 10. Close.

  7. Re:Trouble with traditional distros by straponego · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, they should hold off on releasing the distribution until the final releases of all the packages are out!

  8. Re:Trouble with traditional distros by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but just remember that it already has made several radical upgrades, such as KDE 3.2, Kernel 2.6, Glibc with NPTL, Community Release process. Its far too much to do that all in one go.

    If you would like all that stuff, then there are other distros coming out soon, such as Fedora core 2, SuSE 9.1, Slackware 10, and don't forget constantly updated distros such as Gentoo.

    The Open Source Community is always rapidly changing, if Mandrake had waited for those packages to be released, then some other software would be around the corner and you would complain about that instead.

  9. Re:But what about longhorn by ekstasy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I'm a fan of SCO... but maybe thats just me.

  10. 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.