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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 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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    3. Re:Excellent Distro!!! by TwinkieStix · · Score: 5, Funny

      alias d='apt-get install'
      alias m='urpmi'

      There. Now they are the same length. Can't we all just get along?

  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.

    1. Re:Damn by Siniset · · Score: 5, Insightful
      10.0 is the first release I did the ftp install for and I'm really happy about it. I used gentoo for a while, and loved the fact that i could go to the command line, type emerge foobar and in a couple of minutes (or hours) have foobar on my computer. I loved my gentoo box, but found myself playing with it too much to get it to work just right, which is why I went back to Mandrake, because it's pretty amazing how much they are able to make work just by default. Also, their control center is the best one that I've used, better than fedoras, imo.

      Anyways, I recommend people using it if they are interested in begining on linux, because it gives the ease of use that a beginner needs, but its pretty powerful under the hood.

  3. Community Edition by Xshare · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been using the v.10 Community Edition on one of my older PCs for my little sister. It's easy enough for her, but powerful enough to run what I throw at it. I'll definately be upgrading to the Official Version now.

  4. The Good Ole Days by YodaToo · · Score: 5, Funny

    With BitTorrents of CD & DVD ISO's transporting data over all these fancy high speed lines, do you ever long for the good ole days of having to install distros like Slackware on 3.5 floppy or sending off in the mail for a Walnut Creek CD to load up linux via your fancy new 1x cartridge based CDROM?

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  5. 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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  6. Already tried it. by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every so often, I pit one OS against another. I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10 from Linux Format. Of course it was the download version, but I saw it and I had to check it out.

    The French and the Germans battled it out yet again on my PC. As usual, the Maginot line crumbled instantly as the Germans, with their technical superority *from LAST OCTOBER* (SuSE 9.0), totally cleaned the floor with Mandrake 10.

    And thusly, I cleaned Mandrake off the drive.

    Hello SuSE 9.1

    This again proves that you should get your food from France, technology from Germany, and women from Poland.

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  7. Bittorrent... by Roguelazer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Get on that bittorrent people! I'm only getting 1KiB/s, so the Slashdot effect can't have hit the bittorrent. I know it's hard, but you can all use BT instead of the FTP download. It's inverse slashdot effect, really. The more of us there are, the faster the site is. So hop to!

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  8. 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.