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Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official Has Arrived

Posted by timothy on from the steady-improvement dept.

joestar writes "After 2 months of 10.1 Community polishing, Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official packs are now available for pre-ordering, but Mandrakeclub Members can already download these packs as CD or DVD ISO images. 10.1 Official provides improved hardware support, especially in the mobility area - with for instance full support of Intel Centrino-based laptops - as well as many other features. All in all, it's also certainly one of the most up-to-date Linux system currently available, and one of the most easy to use both for Linux beginners and Linux experts."

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  1. After a quick look at the features list by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    KDE is at version 3.2.3 and GNOME is at 2.6. Notice how they mention 3.3 is available, but only for people who join their club. They also mention how their packages have been optimized for speed. I'd like to see some benchmarks confirming this because I've found that Mandrake 10 was very slow compared to other distros I tried on the same machine.

    I don't want to troll on Mandrake because the features list also included some nice features for laptops, specifically ones that follow the Centrino specs.

    For someone who's considering switching to Mandrake 10.1, it's been my experience that while Mandrake 10 was easy to set up, it's slow and the packaging system is pretty slim and gets outdated soon if you don't pay for the membership. Though Fedora seems the opposite, very up to date packages, but things won't always work correctly out of the box (firewire) and their packaging system is very up to date.

    1. Re:After a quick look at the features list by aelbric · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I'm pretty impressed with Mandrake as a desktop distro, but I have to agree with your comments. I bought the "license" to keep myself up to date and to support their development. I especially like default support for the common desktop features that you see in that other O$.

      I can't see myself doing this for my servers though. Fedora has me pretty happy and RHEL is my choice for mission critical boxes. It doesn't support some of the more windows-like features out of the box (mp3, etc.) but it is rock solid and stable and that's all I need for a server. Updates come fast and furious if necessary as well. I want to have my servers at an N-1 patch level as quickly as we can manage it. If our regression testing is the holdup that's OK. If the provider is the holdup, that's not.

      I think a Mandrake front-end with a Fedora/RHEL back-end is where we will end up. Don't you love OS choice?

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      nos laetus epulor qui would domito nos
    2. Re:After a quick look at the features list by plughead · · Score: 2, Informative
      Mandrake has an experimental distro as well, called 'Cooker'. It's usually very up to date and a bit unstable. (although at the moment, it has the same packages as the 10.1 Official release, i.e. KDE 3.2.3, but I expect that to change within days)

      Oh, and it's free to all...

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      If a giant oil company wanted an abortion, would W's head explode?
  2. Re:Mandrake Criticism by bhtooefr · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IMO , they're a LOT better than SuSE or RedHat.

    Keep in mind, though, here's the versions I've used of each distro:

    RedHat 8 (didn't seriously use it, just played with it, and didn't like it one bit)
    SuSE 8.2 (HATED that thing - RPM hell in the worst way - then again, if you aren't RedHat or Mandrake, there just aren't any packages for you)
    Mandrake 9.2 (liked it, and I didn't even have URPMI working right (didn't know about Easy URPMI))
    Mandrake 10.0 Community (I do agree that the GUI tools were slower, but this is between an RC and a Gold Master, so making impressions from it isn't fair - URPMI is nice, though - just type "urpmi" and the name of a program, and it's installed)

    I do know that RH has yum, so that's available. However, I've never liked RH.

  3. Re:Anyone know by IncohereD · · Score: 2, Informative

    The last couple of fglrx packages have installed just fine for me, without even having to exit the GUI (except to reinitialize the driver). Basically you just need to install the ATI rpm with "rpm -i --force xxxx.rpm", and then run fglrxconfig, as it'll tell you to do on the console.

    Check out www.rage3d.com for more info...the linux forums have gotten really good.