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."

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Hope it fixes xfree problem

[Gyorg_Lavode]

I installed a xfree86 update a few days ago and my ibm thinkpad doesn't like it. I get black everything, (though a few things like text and some images pop up when moused over). tonight I guess I'll download this and hope the new X fork fixes it. And of course that the fact that it's beta doesn't break anything else.

Also available...

[jaf1230]

At http://www.cheaplinux.org/. We burn so you don't have to.

Re:Am downloading to have a look...

[Tassach]

What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?

It's easy to understand: when speaking of a body of troops, "regulated" means "trained, equipped, and disciplined". What, you thought it meant "buried under bureaucratic regulations"? Guess again. Common usage of the English language has changed a bit since 1789. Read the Federalist Papers and the founding fathers' intent will be clear. In Federalist #29, the definitive explanation of the nature of the militia, the phrase "well-regulated" is used interchangably and synonomously with the phrase "well-trained". Indeed, Federalist 29 speaks directly to the dangers of over-regulation:

The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious, if it were capable of being carried into execution. A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it. To oblige the great body of the yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss. It would form an annual deduction from the productive labor of the country, to an amount which, calculating upon the present numbers of the people, would not fall far short of the whole expense of the civil establishments of all the States. To attempt a thing which would abridge the mass of labor and industry to so considerable an extent, would be unwise: and the experiment, if made, could not succeed, because it would not long be endured. Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

The intent and meaning and intent of the Second Amendment is crystal clear. No amount of revisionist history will change the fact that the intent of the founding fathers was that every citizen who was capable of defending the country should, at his own expense, obtain the skills and equipment necessary to do so. It is not only the right of a citizen to arm and equip himself, it is his civic duty to do so.

Re:I like Mandrake...

[rdean400]

Apparently you do, since you were stupid enough to respond.