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Mandrakelinux 10 Now Available To All

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-to-them dept.

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."

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  1. Excellent Distro!!! by drsmack1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Excellent Distro!!! by MoonBuggy · · Score: 5, Informative

      Use the torrents - lots of geeks on expensive synchronous connections are waiting to donate bandwidth to you :-)

    2. Re:Excellent Distro!!! by eltoyoboyo · · Score: 4, Informative

      The pclinuxonline folks have, IMHO, a really good Mandrake live CD put together. You can find it here. They are currently working on the next release which is due...anytime... (They had put an ISO out on the mirrors, but then yanked it right away.)

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    3. Re:Excellent Distro!!! by wemgadge · · Score: 5, Informative
      urpmi.addmedia waschk http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/Man drake/10.0 with hdlist.cz

      to add Gnome 2.6 to Mandrakelinux 10

      http://www.thebrix.org.uk/

      is a site that lists all of the "nonofficial" RPM packager sites for Mandrakelinux

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  2. Damn by Stevyn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:/. Effect to the Extreme by jomas1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  4. Re:SuSe 9.1 is on sale at their online store by SKPhoton · · Score: 4, Informative

    So you say you wanted to grab a copy of the Mandrake LiveCD?

  5. Re:Big claps to Mandrake ... by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Informative
    How is Fedora dumping the home user? It's fantastic! What's more, yum and apt are much better that up2date, and moving out from RedHat (the company) has allowed them to migrate.

    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.

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  6. Re:SuSe 9.1 is on sale at their online store by nocomment · · Score: 4, Informative

    MandrakeMove is what you're looking for. You can even use a USB key to save files on. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move --Bryan

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  7. sure by mrsev · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  8. Re:Fedora Dual-Boot Bug? by Nailer · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  9. Re:How's the wireless support? by Akai · · Score: 4, Informative

    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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