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Mandrakelinux 10.1 Beta Available

Posted by michael on from the catch-a-falling-star dept.

joestar writes "Just announced on Mandrakelinux.com: 'At last something to make your summer hotter, far better than all these linux unaware suntanned chicks and chaps you would like to get along with on the beach. Forget them and go back home, full up your fridge with soya drinks (or your favorite one, but remember that fast assimilated sugar shorten your life expectancy). It is time to test your new air conditionner limits, switching on all the computers sitting arround to test this new Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta! '. Software packages include: Linux 2.6.8 rc2, Glibc 2.3.3, Xorg 6.7.0, KDE 3.2.3 and GNOME 2.6.0."

19 comments

  1. Ackkk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    At last something to make your summer hotter, far better than all these linux unaware suntanned chicks and chaps you would like to get along with on the beach.

    Mandrake is all well and good, but I really don't want anyone encouraging Lunix nerds to wear chaps at the beach.

    1. Re:Ackkk! by 9-bits.tk · · Score: 1
      I would rather not look at those Linux Women getting on... in rather an explicit way...

      Bah.

      Humbug.
  2. Damn You /.! by Rtsbasic · · Score: 1

    Seemingly every mirror has slowed to a crawl & I've already downloaded the first CD so don't want to waste another 650mb on BT, any mirrors still fast?

    1. Re:Damn You /.! by Cyberop5 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Some of the newer bit torrent clients like Bit Tornado and Azereus will allow you to set the priority for downloading specific files within a torrent. You could set your first CD as low priority or not to download and have it work on fetching the others.

      You might even be able to fool bit torrent into thinking that the file for CD1 is done by copying it into the folder it creates for Mandrake 10.1 Beta.

      Either way you'll help out the BT network

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      Urgo: "I want to live. I want to experience the universe and I want to eat pie!"
      Jack: "Who doesn't??"
  3. No KDE 3.3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    KDE 3.3 is a big improvement over previous versions, especially regarding speed. The KDE project has released betas and will have a release candidate in the next couple of days. I wonder why Mandrake didn't include this in their beta?

    1. Re:No KDE 3.3? by shfted! · · Score: 4, Informative

      When making a beta, you are mainly in bug fixing and stabilising mode -- that means, you don't go changing major variables all the the time, or at least not all at once. KDE 3.2 is known to be stable. After Mandrake has the bugs worked out of the first beta, they may very well well include KDE 3.3.

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      He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
    2. Re:No KDE 3.3? by Stevyn · · Score: 1

      I doubt it. Mandrake seemed slow on releasing new versions compared to other distros. Maybe you have to join the club for them. When I was using Mandrake 10 just a month ago they still had only KDE 3.2. If you want bleeding edge in one of those "easy" distros, go with Fedora and see how everything is half-broken. I don't think it would be a wise move for them to release the beta with KDE 3.3.

      However, Once they release the stable KDE 3.3 I'll upgrade.

  4. PS/2 Mice? by shfted! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any chance that they got PS/2 mice working properly again? With 10.0, mine stopped working, while they worked fine in the previous release. 10.0 is really crappy.

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    He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
    1. Re:PS/2 Mice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sure you didnt get confused with the 2.6 and 2.4 kernel options of Mdk10.0?

    2. Re:PS/2 Mice? by shfted! · · Score: 1

      Apparently the 2.6 kernel has trouble with my mice. There is no option to choose another when using the download edition. It's simply broken. Mandrake shouldn't ship a kernel with such a bug.

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      He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
    3. Re:PS/2 Mice? by Gillious · · Score: 1

      Must only be your mouse because I have a logitech MX300 at home and a MS mouse here at work, Niether of them have any problems in the PS2 port. In fact the only problem I ever did have with a mouse and drake 10 was with a generic USB mouse.

    4. Re:PS/2 Mice? by shfted! · · Score: 1

      Yes, it does depend on the chip inside the mouse. For some reason, some chips no longer work. It was a complete show stopper.

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      He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
  5. Damn it! by Wuukie · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't have an airconditioner, you insensitive clod!

  6. Snagged it last night. by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    I only had one issue with the whole install, it installed lilo befored I had a chance to pick Grub. The command line rescue option and lilo -U didnt work.

    But I booted into x-windows and ran Mandrake Setup and picked boot, and re-installed Grub on my main partition. Worked perfectly.

    Didn't have any apic/lapic or apci problems on this install, Release 10 would freeze if you didnt give it the command lines. (Also a small font install issue)

    Still my favorite Distro, updates are not on all the mirrors yet, so I couldnt do an after install update. I doubt there would be any 1 day updates anyways....
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    **** the FCC.

  7. Re:My experience with Mandrake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I guess all the other crap in the post gives away what it really is, but just for the record the Mandrake installer gives you the option of starting X automatically...

  8. I'm in Australia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... you insensitive clod!