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Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All
EvilAlien writes "Mandrakelinux has released the ISOs for Mandrakelinux 10.0. Mandrakelinux 10 is one of the first commercially available Linux distributions to feature the 2.6 kernel by default. As always, you can download the release via FTP or Bittorrent. Remember, if you use Mandrakelinux, join the club or buy a box to support them."
I have upgraded from Mandrake 9.2 and I can say that this is the finest Linux distro made today. I bought Suse 9.1 and checked it out for a while; but went back to Mandrake. I am a club member and as such can easily install realplayer, flash, and Java right from pre-compiled rpms. URPMI keeps me coming back!
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I just spent two days downloading each file from FTP!
Actually, I think the ftp install is more efficient. It allows you do skip the source RPMs and the contrib directory if you don't want it. You can also do a more unattended install because you don't have to keep switching out the cds. And...I'm pretty sure there was a script that made the ISOs for you. Damn, I just invalidated this whole story. Sorry slashdot.
It comes with 2.6.4-54 (off the top of my head, so I may be wrong about the sub-revision)
My mom says I'm cool.
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The /. effect should help the bittorent along greatly though. The more people who get http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/Mandrakelinux-1 0.0-Official-Download.torrent
the faster it goes right?
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Please, try Fedora before you bash it. And, since when is the quality of a distro tied to the support of a corporation? Wouldn't that mean that Debian and Slackware suck? Odd, since they don't.
You are not the customer.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
I think it still is according to this . But somehow the bug is marked as FIXED. More info here. Only a temp solution is provided :(
No.
I have installed Drake v10 Official on 4 different PC's (3 laptop's and a desktop) and XP (NTFS & FAT32) and all dual-boot ok.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
That story was saying that the Official release was available to payign Mandrake Club members. Now it's freely available to anyone.
Community is like a final release candidate. They consider is stable enought to release but not to sell. All the bugfixes from community go into the official release. The official is the one in the boxes in the shops and is considered stable.
Finding the download is elegantly simple, as I discovered. Google is your friend: search for "mandrake linux download." The first result is to their download page.
The /. effect should help the bittorent along greatly though.
In theory sure, but have you ever tried to download a hugely popular file that only has a few seeds?
I have, it sucks.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Mandrake 10 Official plays just fine with a Windows partition. I've been using it for a while no with no issues booting to Windows. Also it was my understanding that it wasn't the 2.6 kernel that caused the issue but something to do with Fedora Core 2's installer.
It is on EMule, along with CD 5.
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Just update mandrake-release-10.0-1mdk then:
o fficial/updates/10.0/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.czm andrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/ RPMS with ../base/hdlist.czm andrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz
urpi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/
urpmi.addmedia main ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
and finaly
urpi --update --auto-select
[sigh] All I get is complaints about QM_MODULES. None of my modules install which makes my system entirely useless. This is on a supposedly clean install, though I also tried an upgrade. I tried with kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x, no go in any case.
It's a shame. I paid $160 to Mandrake for this and it doesn't work. I was a happy Mandrake 9.2 customer but 10.0 just doesn't work.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Yes.
See bugzilla bug.
To make the problem apparent, you must partition whilst using kernel 2.6. Not upgrade an existing system to 2.6 after having already partitioned.
Also, the bug only appears on particular drive geometries.
But you can fix it with sfdisk, writing out a new partition table with a different geometry.
See the parent posts link.
I just did a raw install of MDK 10 official last week (I'm a silver member) on my work laptop since I get so frustrated using windows I want to hit things.
Anyways, I was at a conference and borrowed an Orinoco wireless card, slammed it in the side and powered up the laptop. It detected a new wireless card, asked me for SSID type stuff and came right up.
Mandrake also supports hotplugging of network interfaces, so if there's no carrier on your built-in-ethernet it doesn't try to bring it up.
As for the dlink card, you might want to check here and see if they list it.
good luck
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Mandrake 10 Official for AMD 64 was released on May 4th. Looks like it'll cost you about $129.00 (U.S.) unless your a club memeber then you get a discount or a pony or something.
Hassle the http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ team for this, not the http://speedtouchconf.sourceforge.net "team" (ie, me) for it.
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I'm typing this on 10.0 Official (at least that's what it says when I boot), and I updated from Community simply by getting new urpmi sources for Official from Easy Urpmi and running urpmi --auto-select
Now, I can't tell if I've installed just the right packages so they don't conflict or what, but so far I've had no problems with this setup. Actually, it's even better now - when running /etc/init.d/network (re)start it used fail on bringing up eth0 (it still worked though just fine). I've read some other people have had the same problem with MDK as well, and they remedied it by turning off network hotplugging; but this never worked for me. Now it just works.
CD4 is only available for MDK Club members. If you are not a member, you will not have aces to the ISO.
Although, don't worry. All the contents are accessible through urpmi/rpmdrake (Mandrake's YasT/apt-get/yum software installation rpogram) . Just add the "main" and "contrib" sources to urpmi from the Easy URPMI page here:
http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/
See? All nice and easy.
Peace
If you want a laptop, go to http://www.powernotebooks.com. They sell OS-less laptops and laptops with Mandrake (and Xig's X server) preloaded.
* Actually I take that back.. feel free to reply with what you think is good or not good with slack. There are bad things about Slackware? I wanted to learn linux about a year and half ago. The first distro I'd picked up (the one you heard most about) was Redhat. The install was easy enough and everything was very Windows-like which surprised me not knowing what to expect from this linux animal. Then after about a week my display suddenly went south. I logged in to find there was no gui in my gui.
So after a bit of tooling around and a couple of reinstalls which always resulted in the same problem (fonts, buttons, toolbars all failing to show up) I gave up and tried Mandrake. It was nice and all but still way too much like Redhat and Windows for my liking. Besides that I wasn't learning anything about the infamous command-line everyone's so hyped about.
At that point (about a month in) I ditched linux for a while and went with FreeBSD which worked really great! At the same time I still found a lot of programs that I couldn't use with it so I once again began a search for another distro.
I found Slackware after reading an article about Linux in the workplace wherein the author got a new job and immediately ditched windows for his favorite linux distro, Slackware. Intrigued (ya gotta admit the name is cool) I sought it out and found out (by reading reviews) that it was difficult to install and had a steep learning curve which made it even more appealing to me.
I have to say, Slackware was just as easy (if not easier) to install than any of the previous three OS's and the dreaded "steep learning curve" is really more of a gentle slope. Slack uses not only its own packaging system but also has an RPM installer as well as the ability to convert RPMs to TGZs. As for a gui, you can install Gnome with a minimum of fuss using Dropline Gnome.
With the recent addition of Swaret to keep your distro current, Slackware really has the advantage of being an easy to use, EXTREMELY stable linux distro that is not only functional but also serves as a gentle introduction to the command line.
You know what they say... once you go Slack, you never go back!