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Mandrakelinux 10 Official Released

Posted by timothy on from the and-soon-for-non-members dept.

boklm writes "Two months after the Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community release, the enhanced and polished 'Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official release' has been announced. Download ISOs are available today for Club members and packs are also avaible on MandrakeStore." As Shipud puts it, "USB2 support... vive 2.6.3 !!"

12 of 322 comments (clear)

  1. ISO by 110010001000 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I need Mandrake ISO's but I don't want to pay to be in the club. Where can I get some?

    1. Re:ISO by tkittel · · Score: 5, Insightful

      > I have to wait for community written software in
      > the form of an ISO because I am poor? Isn't that
      > creating false scarcity? Information wants to be
      > "free". Charge for support, not our software.

      The "support" in this case is that mandrake took the time to put all the bits and pieces together.

      And not to be rude, but please dont make it sound like having to wait a few weeks for a cutting edge distribution is a great injustice. You still get it for FREE, even though mandrake put millions into it.

    2. Re:ISO by el-spectre · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Information doesn't wanna be anthropomorphized... that fucking quote was lame when it was invented, and it's lame now.

      And they are largely defraying distribution costs by doing it this way.

      And they are doing more than just shipping community software. Mandrake adds a decent amount of customization to linux. Don't like it? then go do a Linux From Scratch install or something.

      And they are not depriving you of anything, just saying wait a bit, or pay a price to cut in line.

      Yes, Virginia, there are costs associated with the world, and No, "But I don't like that" isn't a valid reason to ignore those costs.

      --
      "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
    3. Re:ISO by el-spectre · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Hmm.

      I want a hot japanese woman to appear in my office RIGHT NOW!

      DAMNIT, I'm SERIOUS!

      Fuck, guess "I Want" doesn't work...

      --
      "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
    4. Re:ISO by el-spectre · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's OK because they need to cover their production costs and bandwidth.

      There's no causation between slogans and logic, friend... ya need a better reason than that (or am I just troll feeding?)

      --
      "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
    5. Re:ISO by tkittel · · Score: 5, Insightful
      But they are creating artifical scarcity by limiting the release of the ISO's to a few who paid money. They are depriving me of access to the information (ISO's) because I do not want to join the "club" and pay a fee.. How is this OK? Information wants to be free!

      Newsflash: Information is not sentient and doesn't want anything. Repeating something ad nauseum doesn't make it true. Not even if RMS thinks so.

      Despite the great efforts Mandrake takes to only ship GPL'ed software and providing the results of their hard labor for free, some people will always complain.

      Let me ask you this: What did YOU contribute to the open source world (or free software, since you are parrotting RMS). And if you did contribute anything significant, where can I download it (using bandwidth that YOU paid for). And where can I go and bitch and complain if it doesn't live up to my ethical standards?

    6. Re:ISO by typobox43 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Join the club. I hope you realize the irony in that statement.

  2. Pardon my ignorance, by rdsmith4 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    but what is the difference between Community and Official?

    And did slashdot go offline in the past half hour? Doubtless someone has mentioned it already...

  3. Re:Damn! by wolrahnaes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm on dialup and just finished 10.0 Community three days ago....I feel your pain man...

    I think I'll wait for the retail version and show a little $upport for my favorite distro.

    --
    I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
  4. Re:MandrakeClub users aren't too happy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    bittorrents are the best way to distribute ISOs. The people complaining about bt obviously enjoy having their downloads stalled b/c that is what bt fixes.

  5. Re:Pardon my French but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Waiting is what he'll have to do while it compiles for four days.

  6. Re:Kinks worked out? by buchanmilne · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even though it was more of a release candidate than a full release, I was shocked myself at how terrible it was.

    It is the first mainstream distro with a 2.6 kernel. That always means there will be hardware issues.

    I had problems installing it on a few different computers.

    Did you try the provided 2.4 installation kernel? Did you file bug reports?

    (Note, many NForce2 boards have issues unless you boot with 'noapic nolapic', at least with the kernel the community install CDs had).

    I'm pretty sure that the official release will not have these problems.

    If you had filed bugs (or searched to see if they had been filed already), you would know for sure ...