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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 !!"

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  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 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?