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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. 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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  4. 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.