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Mandrake Linux 10.1 for PPC Released

Posted by pudge on from the ppcpenguin dept.

OctaneZ writes "DistroWatch is reporting the first release of Mandrake 10.1 for PPC, this is the first PPC upgrade from the Mandrake camp since April of 2003. Release 10.1 includes stepping up to kernel 2.6.8, Gnome 2.6, and KDE 3.2.3. Release Notes and Torrent are available."

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  1. Re:But... by JMZorko · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... because OSX doesn't always do it. OSX is wonderful (I use it all of the time) but there are some things Linux does that OSX does not:

    1. AIO calls on non-file FDs i.e. sockets, pipes

    2. userland calls for atomic operations (without using Carbon)

    3. more current compiler support i.e. you can use any FSF version of gcc and not have to worry about having weird things happen if you mix FSF gcc with Apple's gcc

    Now, #2 above can be done under OSX with a bit of PPC assembly, and as for #3, you can use FSF gcc alongside Apple's gcc, but you won't be able to make calls into Carbon / Cocoa with FSF's gcc, and Apple's gcc is always behind FSFs gcc (Apple's is 3.3, FSF is already at 3.4.2 I think, working on 4.0). FSF gcc changes eventually make it into Apple's gcc, but it takes time as Apple needs to add a lot of their own stuff that won't ever bein the FSF version.

    Regards,

    John

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    Falling You - beautiful
  2. Re:Here we go again, by DustyCase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "I'd love to see their Live CD with PPC support (if that's even do-able)" I'd love to see it too. A live CD that approached the "Oooohhh Ahhhh" factor of the Knoppix CDs that I use on Intel-based architecture would be a wonderful thing. I don't understand why a live CD for a *nix friendly platform like the Apple/PPC is so rare. It would seem that the heavy lifting was already done.

  3. Re:Here we go again, by Lord+Kano · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I prefer mandrake on the PC, but for the PPC patform Yellow Dog now suports (sort of) 64bit architecture. (Ooh Ahh).

    I agree that Mandrake is a bit better on x86 that on PPC. I'm running two PPC machines with Mandrake 9.1 and one x86 with Mandrake 9.0 and the x86 version works a bit smoother. There are complications with glibc and some depends but I don't plan on using any other flavor of linux on those PPC machines.

    LK

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    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. DIsappointing... by Power+Everywhere · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's somewhat of a bummer that they didn't get GNOME 2.8 or KDE 3.3, the two latest versions of said software, into this release and instead had to use older versions. Will we see them in a minor update, or will we have to wait til Mandrake 10.2?

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    BLING BLING. Meet the architecture that's changing everything.

  5. No Mandrake For Me by seancallaway · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or not, but Mandrake 10 screwed up my partition table. It didn't even recognize 20 of the 60 GB in my drive. Since then I haven't used Mandrake. Anyone else have a problem like this before?