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Mandrakesoft Releases 10.1 Beta1

Posted by timothy on from the screenshot-extravaganza dept.

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."

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  1. I like Mandrake... by rdean400 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    and I'll jump right on this one to get rid of XFree86.

  2. Mandrake Impresses Me... by Tiberius_Fel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a user of MS products all the way from MS-DOS to Windows XP, I must say that Mandrake (10.0) greatly impressed me when I loaded it, and it continues to do so. Kudos to MandrakeSoft for making such a great product, and I'm glad that they're making it better all the time. :-)

    I look forward to trying out 10.1 beta....

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    1. Re:Mandrake Impresses Me... by Wog · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Agreed.

      I've been a heavy user of MS products since 3.1, and have toyed with Linux on home server and desktop setups.

      Mandrake 10 was the first distro that had no trouble with the hardware on my laptop. After changing one boot option to enable ACPI and get sound working, it was flawless.

      I now dual-boot XP and Mandrake on my laptop, and it's great. I'm learning quickly as I use Linux, and at this point I only keep XP around for games and work -- My Samsung VI660 USB phone doesn't seem to like Linux, and I can't seem to find drivers for it.

  3. jaj mandrake by GooDieZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Something nice to do over weekend, trying out the new beta on test machine.

    The nicest thing about all that? well when it becomes Release 10.1 you just update sources and wait for urpmi to end rpming...

    Done this since MDK 8.2, no new CD installs just update. Now MS beat that

    To hell with Karma spoilers...

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  4. Yum Frontend by dduardo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Mandrake has done a good job based on what I saw in the screenshots. The only thing I think they should add is a frontend to Yum. Although there is probable plenty of software on the cd, not everything is going to be there. Perhaps if the user downloads an RPM from the net and double click it, yum starts up, parses the filename and installs all the dependences associated with the program. If Mandrake can pull that off i'll be very impressed and have more reason to suggest it for friends. Unfortunely, you won't be checking me running mandrake anytime soon. I've already been sold on Gentoo.

  5. Re:Vicious revenue cycle. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Mandrake releases like this because most of their releases are buggy. 10.0 included. Plus, there isn't much of "feature bloat" in Mandrake...it still runs on machines that ran releases from a few years back.

  6. Don't bother with the screenshots by Hooded+One · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you've seen Mandrake before, there's nothing new for you. I looked through all of them, and the first half or so of the screenshots were of the installer, followed by the first-run stuff, and the Mandrake Control Center categories. The only new thing I noticed was a user survey, and possibly some changes to the first-run wizards. There was one shot of Konqueror, but other than that no shots of running applications.

    If you've never seen Mandrake before, you might want to go ahead and look, but for anybody else it's pretty much a waste of time. Plus it's hell on LinuxBeta's servers.

    That said, a quick question for anybody who has installed this beta: Does Mandrake still use devfs, or have they finally moved to udev? That was one of my disappointments when I tried 10 Community.

  7. Beta Fatigue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have used ( & loved ) Linux off & on for 12 years but recently I switched to Mac beause frankly I got burn't out by the constant beta state & contiunal change.

    Putting aside the politics, sometimes one needs things to just work so one can attend all the other things called 'a life' ahem...