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Mandrakesoft Releases 10.1 Beta1
Theanswriz42 writes "MandrakeSoft has announced the release of Mandrake Linux 10.1 Beta1 which is available from one of the many mirrors or from bittorrent. xorg is now the standard and there are many other changes from the previous version of Mandrake Linux. Screenshots are available here."
...even though I prefer SUSE over Mandrake by far.
I always get excited about new releases. Linux's constantly increasing numbers make me feel like things are always getting better, which is usually the case.
By contrast, every new MS release makes me scared about what they're sneaking in this time - activation, DRM, Trusted Computing...
Mandrake, just as much as the commercial players, needs to keep releasing updates to generate sales. This cycle contributes to an endless cycle of pointless minor updates and feature bloat.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Actually, i posted the bug. Posting bugs is good for mandrake cause it makes the product better. I like mandrake, hence the viva la mandrake, and finally, only cowards post anonymously.
Coward.
Official GOD FAQ.
What do you want to do? If you want simplicity stick with SuSE. If you want to mess with Linux itself, and not extra distro crap, go with Slackware. If you want to compile everything go with Gentoo. If you want to compile everything but just don't find Gentoo to be all that appealing and you want a more Slackware like experience do Linux From Scratch. If you don't want a lot of distro crap, but want package management, go with Debian.
Be a little more specific. Best Linux desktop for what?
This might be "interesting" in an interesting sort of way, but is certainly uninformed. Urpmi existed way before yum and is at this stage more mature.
As far as clicking on an rpm and installing and resolving dependencies automatically, that also has been the default behavior for a long time.
Pragmatism as an ideology is not particularly pragmatic in the long term. Keep it in mind when you dismiss Free Software
They still haven't fixed the stupid 10 control center, where when you select a category all the other categories disappear, leaving users only with the poorly marked "back" button at the bottom. What was wrong with the category system like YaST?