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Mandrake 10.1 Community Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

MohammedSameer writes "Mandrakesoft released MandrakeLinux 10.1 Community, As usual it's only available first to the club members The new release features Kernel 2.6.8.1, Xorg-X11 6.7, KDE 3.2.3 with 3.3 as an install option,"

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  1. Does it matter? by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As usual it's only available first to the club members

    Does this actually matter? How many Madrake Users get their ISO's from Mandrake anyway? Torrents will probably have 10.1 within the day.

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    1. Re:Does it matter? by Nos. · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I guess the thing is, if you like Mandrake, then become a club member, not so much to get first dibs on the ISO's, but to support Mandrake itself.
      Personally I don't use Mandrake (nothing against them), but there could be other benefits to being in the club.

  2. Club membership by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My experience has been that you really need to be an enthusiast of this distro to bother installing the Community version of it. For some reason, I ended up with the Comminity version of 10.0 when downloading it via BitTorrent, and boy did it need some work. KDE crashing every ten seconds, weird bugs like the SDL segfault when the wacom tablet module (evdev) was loaded, etc.

    Point being, don't try this out as a stable release. Only try it if you have time to kill and really want to see what Mandrake has done with their release this far. Otherwise, wait for the Official ISOs when they become availible to the public.

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  3. Former MDK user... by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I started with MDK with 6.0 (*after my time with Red Hat 5.0*) and really loved it. After years of playing with it on the desktop and using it for an MP3 FTP server, I got tired of the RPM depenancy hell and I made the jump to Slackware. A few years of playing in Debian and now Gentoo, I feel I've learned a ton more than I did before, and with YUM and apt-rpm I think it may be time to install/try out this latest version on a sandbox for desktop testing.

    I used to enjoy seeing what they 'smoothed out' over the prev release. The MDK Club turned me off as Deno started getting stinky about support for 'non-users' but I understand they're just trying to make a dollar (or euro in their case).

    Regardless, nice to see a major Linux Distro still in the running.

    CCBB

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    1. Re:Former MDK user... by opkool · · Score: 3, Insightful

      RPM dependency hell?

      You obviously never used urpmi. Probably, that old Mandrake had no urpmi.

      Think of urpmi as apt-get. And you get GUI and text-based front-ends.

      urpmi is native to Mandrake, and this is a big reason to use Mandrake.

      See http://www.urpmi.org for more information.

      Also, MDK lately comes all compiled with the prelink option, and with i586 optimization.

      Peace!

  4. Re:Gentoo by avelldiroll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those two are pretty different : Mandrake is designed for the newcommer or someone who want to install a system in less than 30 minutes without being bothered by hardware problems (autodetection wizard). The obtained system is quite rigid and require to enjoy GUI config tools (cause some of them cannot be bypassed). Gentoo is tailored by the user himself which results in a longer installation (can be up to 2 days) process, and a minimum of automatisation (some kind of autodetection but you are encouraged to avoid it), all this in order to get the system you want (ie most of the time faster than any precompiled distros). To compare distros with cars Mandrake would be an easy to drive automatic and Gentoo would be a custom car ...

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  5. Re:Gentoo by slide-rule · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [Mandrake] is quite rigid and require to enjoy GUI config tools (cause some of them cannot be bypassed).

    I'm curious what tools you're referring to. I'm far from any expert on any distro, but I've never had a problem dumping out to a console window, su'ing to root, and tweaking the odd config file by hand (mainly in that I still don't understand where some things are at in the mdk gui tools ; seems like I always have to hand-edit /etc/hosts for my 3-machine home LAN) ... and the systems I do this cover most of the common gamut a normal person would need to bother with.

  6. Mod parent down, it's basically spam. by biendamon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The site loadux.com is a pay service ($6.99) not actually associated with Mandrake. In other words, you pay them for something Mandrake will soon be releasing to everyone for free, and Mandrake gets nothing.

    You want the new Mandrake NOW NOW NOW? You've got six choices:

    1) Get a club membership. You get tons of apps prepackaged as Mandrake RPMs and dedicated mirrors, too.

    2) Make a friend with someone who already has a club membership. Nothing wrong with making copies of the CDs.

    3) Learn the art of patience, and wait for the general release.

    4) Download the current Cooker. It's gonna be essentially the same.

    5) Download the sources and compile it yourself. Pain in the butt, but no one ever said the GPL means they have to provide you binaries, only source.

    6) Pay these guys $6.99 to download the images from them. Please note: This option will automatically make you an asshat.