Mandrake 10.1 Beta2 Released

Lord Byron II writes "Mandrake has announced the latest beta of the upcoming 10.1 release. This beta fixes several bugs and introduces a few new features. Get your copy from one of the many mirrors or this torrent."

Comments

dvd playability

[mono_indy]

will this version be able to play dvds out of the box?

Re:dvd playability

[Anonymous Coward]

In case the answer is no, there's always the decss stuff from the PLF (Penguin Liberation Front).

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't wait to distribute the CD among the LG CD-ROM users group tonight.

Re:Great!

[Kick the Donkey]

I'm sorry... There's actually a LG CD-ROM users group?

And they say Linux people are geeks...

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

the point is not the LG CD_ROM user group, which I doubt ever existed, but the fact that previous installations of Mandrake kinda made the LG CD_ROMs go up in smoke

Re:Great!

[Kick the Donkey]

I was well aware of that issue... I was simply making a point about a user group for nothing more than a particular brand of cdrom drive users.... Sounded wierd...

Now, to get back on topic: Go Mandrake! (that should keep me from getting modded Offtopic, right?)

Re:Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

You're still missing the point -- the original AC was joking. Of course they don't actually have a user group.

Ah yes...

[xgamer04]

fixes several bugs...introduces a few new features
It's OK guys, bugs happen.

Mandrake's Problem

[Prien715]

I've been using Mandrake since the very early days of its existance. It's biggest problem is that each version comes with really great looking GUI tools (distro specific ones) and interface which lack stability and polish. Rather than polishing the tools with each release and deciding on something stable, they decide to make it completely new and different looking for the next release. This is fine, if say, you're making a movie trilogy (maybe George Lucas should call them!) but it's bad if you're trying to design an interface.

Re:Mandrake's Problem

[BrookHarty]

Setup tools are a universal problem, and Mandrake has been doing a good job, the setup tool has been improving. SuSE has been polishing Yast and its now opensource. Both console and GUI versions are very easy to use. I'd like to see Yast used on Mandrake, since its opensource, and IMHO easier to get things setup.

What I'd like to see with mandrake, is the update process a little smoother, still a little kludgy when updating on basic or paid updates. I bought and paid for redhat update services, now I pay for Mandrake. I switched when redhat dumped all the desktop applications and went strictly for server roles. (But now there is Fedora, ya I know...)

Re:Mandrake's Problem

[PianoComp81]

Actually, Mandrake has been polishing their Mandrake Control Center since 9.0 or so. I've been using 10.1 beta, and while there are quite a few bugs in general (such as everything I type in a window suddenly coming out in some pictograph font-set), I think they've finally gotten the control center working without many bugs.

Re:Mandrake's Problem

[digime]

completely new and different looking for the next release

I wouldn't say completely new. Mandrake does a lot of rearranging on each release, like categories in the Control Center and in the default menus. So if you get used to one release, you're right, you're sort of lost on the next release as far as finding what you're looking for. But, it's still there, somewhere. I happened to like the new menu categories and arrangment from 9.2 to 10.0. In a way, you could call that polishing it.

Beta2 Release Notes

[Anonymous Coward]

- Switch to udev, update of dynamic and the initscripts, that is
likely to bring some fun, so test and test again.
- Linux kernel 2.6.8.1.
- Two new comers in the now big drak* family, drakroam for wireless
connections and drakbt as bittorrent wizard.
- Evolution, we had some reports, we would like to be sure everything
is now working correctly.
- The litte net applet in the task bar to check the network status.
- Update of dcraw which allow to convert most of the raw format of
digital cameras.
- Displaying of release notes during packages installation. They may
move somewhere else, but to check the feature.
- Again gnome 2.6 to test.
- New menu structure (no need to report yet any bugs related to
missing icons or capitalization problems)
- Xchat 2.4.0

Bug fixes:

- Everything related to modem connection, ppp, pppoe, pppoa, ppptp.
- ACPI should now be correctly detected and activated.
- Fix of ethernet firewire.
- Boot discs should now work again.
- Hebrew displaying during the installation should be correct.
- Network connection during installation (especially for CD install)
should work now (for example to download security updates or to detect network printers).
- Lots of fixes into Mozilla.
- Multi-CD installation is likely to work now with ISO files on a harddrive (little naming problem in beta 1 prevented it to work).
- Printerdrake should work now (printers automatically detected and configured during installation)

Known troubles:

- Kernel 2.6.8.1 breaks CD burning as a user ; again this kernel panic at the end of installation, we are working on it.
- It may be that the KDE configuration is not updated correctly between beta 1 and beta 2.

Re:Beta2 Release Notes

[Anonymous Coward]

again this kernel panic at the end of installation, we are working on it.


If anybody actually gets this and has to reboot before everything is unmounted DO NOT LET FSCK FIX THE PROBLEMS ITS FINDS! Tell FSCK to ignore them. If you let fsck fix them before it can even build a journal you are screwed.

Re:Beta2 Release Notes

[Anonymous Coward]

- Printerdrake should work now

I think we all agree on what should work.

What's next? "Mandrake should not wipe the WinXP partition now"?

Bit Torrent Link

[humuhumunukunukuapu']

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/Mandrakelinux-1 0.1beta1.torrent hop on!

Re:Bit Torrent Link

[Anonymous Coward]

How am I supposed to download this if I don't already have Mandrake? Geez!

Mandrake Nostalgia

[zxflash]

Been about a year since I last tried mandrake. I'm quite interested to see how far they've come however I've been disappointed by it many times in the past...
Beautiful interface but very poor support for my hardware. On the other hand all of the old school distros (Slackware, RedHat/Fedora) have paled in comparison to Knoppix

Re:Mandrake Nostalgia

[Choron]

You must have some very weird piece of hardware then, I may just be lucky but I never had any problem with hardware support in Mandrake, everything was available out of the box, I didn't even need to recompile the kernel : scanner, printer, compact flash reader, plus all the standard ones (sound card, ...).

Knoppix on the other hand has a kernel which includes practically anything so of course there are more chances that your hardware will be found. You should try recompiling the kernel of a standard distribution (Mandrake or something else) and include the hardware you have problems with.