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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."

3 of 19 comments (clear)

  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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  2. 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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  3. 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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