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Mandrake 10.1 RC1 Available

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rolling-towards-release dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes "Warly has announced the availability of Mandrake Linux 10.1 RC1 via torrent or FTP for those who enjoy bug reporting. Key ingredients: kernel 2.6.8 with parts of 2.6.9, xorg 6.7.0, KDE 3.2.3, Gnome 2.6, Mozilla 1.7.2, glibc 2.3.3, and gcc 3.4.1, among other goodies found in over 1,800 packages. This announcement follows on the heels of the Mandrake & LaCie project known as GlobeTrotter, a USB hard drive-based Mandrake distribution portable to most of today's PCs."

6 comments

  1. Hopefully by spikestabber · · Score: 1

    Now all they need is X11R6.8.0

    1. Re:Hopefully by shfted! · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Considering 10.1 is already in release candidate status, it's very unlikely there will be new versions of anything, unless there are security issues or severe bugs. I guess we'll have to wait for 10.2 ;)

      --
      He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
  2. Release Notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    General Stuff
    New structure:
    The general hierarchy of the repository has been changed. Everything related to installation is now in /install, included live install files (install/stage2/live), images (install/images), isolinux (install/isolinux) and ramdisks (install/stage2). Packages are still separated in media, located in /media. A top level /media/media_info directory contains general medadata, and each medium has a subdirectory media_info with related packages metadata.

    Install Stuff
    You now have the possibility to add extra media (CD or network) during the installation. This means that you can download only the disc 1 or the new mini disc 1 and add a network source to complete your packages list.

    Hardware Stuff
    Firewire Networking
    On computers with firewire, firewire networking will now be bound to eth0, while all other network cards will become eth1 and so on. People doing an upgrade, should remove their network configuration via Mandrake Control Center, and then recreate it, with the correct ethernet device. Laptop
    laptop_mode is used to lower battery usage via the suspend-scripts package. Configure it with /etc/sysconfig/laptop.
    PCMCIA network cards

    Network cards must be set to ONBOOT=yes now. So you need to change it if you upgrade using drakconnect or any other ways.
    udev is now the default device manager
    Is there anything the user has to do to deal with this switch?

    • Bug #4321 df lists full filesystem device names instead of short form => udev should solve that
    • Bug #10821 udev doesn't remember NVIDIA driver devices => put in /etc/modprobe.preload

    CD Burning

    PalmOS PDA

    • most PalmOS PDA working device should now be automatically detected and linked to /dev/pilot (see Bug #3381), but some can't be autodetected (like Tungsten T, T2). In this case (ie if pilot-link -l failed after starting hotsync on the Palm), add "VISOR_SWAP=true" to /etc/sysconfig/usb to force correct device usage.

    Userland Stuff Desktop KDE

    • Removable devices

    supermount isn't used anymore to mount removable devices, they won't automatically appear on KDE desktop. To have removable device icons back on your desktop, go in the KDE Control Center/LookNFeel/Behavior/Devices icons, and make sure that the "Unmounted Hard Disc Partition" option is checked. This will be fixed in 10.1 Community edition. GNOME

    • GNOME 2.6

    Menus The simplified menu system has been enhanced to avoid the "All Applications" entry. Networking hostname changes and X sessions hostname changes triggered by network scripts will no longer break X sessions. This is implemented in the s2u package. default route Default routes are handled by device now to allow easy plugging/unplugging of network cards. To have priority between your devices, use the METRIC variable in your ifcfg-* files. Are there instructions on how to do this somewhere?, what are the allowed values of metric? internet service The internet service has been removed in favor of the normal network service. The installer or drakconnect will take care of the transition. Net Applet There is a new net applet that displays the network status in the notification area of the panel.

    System Udev Udev is now the default device manager. Xorg xorg is now t

    1. Re:Release Notes by PianoComp81 · · Score: 3, Informative
      CD Burning
      • there's currently a known bug in kernel-2.6.8.1 for CD burning Bug #10840
      • the correction is available / should be included soon : http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3659
      • current impact on K3B : K3B news cannot recognize CD writer
      According to the bug, this is now fixed with kernel 2.6.8.1-8mdk. So, you just need to update the kernel after install (which is acceptable for an RC).
  3. version increment by Stevyn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While this is 10.1 up from 10, it might seem like a small step. However, most of the updates are in the packages and not nessesarily in mandrake specific stuff. People are probably going to upgrade because it's easier than loading on all new packages. Plus, it looks like they've got some nicer automatic hardware support. I'll give mandrake that, their hardware support is pretty good.

  4. 5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    A measly 5 comments? This must be a record low for /.!