Mandrake 10.1 Official Publicly Available

joestar writes "Just announced: the latest major Mandrakelinux release - 10.1 Official - is ready for public download on a number of FTP mirrors and through Bitorrent. This new version is now also available on a convenient ISO-DVD image, and as an experimental mini-ISO-CD image (which needs a fast Internet access to complete the installation). This new version provides many new features and a better hardware support, including improved support of mobile and wireless technologies. Download is available here."

Comments

Different experience

[czarangelus]

A lot of people are posting negative comments about how their MDK 10.1 install turned out, and I'd just like to temper that with my experience.

I've had nothing but good fortune with my install of 10.1. It detected everything (including my Synaptics touchpad, trackball USB mouse, and wireless card) perfectly and got it up and running with no hassles.

I really like the administrator tools in Mandrake, which is one of the reasons I use it instead of any other distribution. In 10.1 the GUI tools are very clean and look great.

I do have some complaints, like I don't like how the Mandrake security tools change permissions on files once an hour, requiring me to add a new rule to reset it back to the permissions I wanted. This was a neverending source of frustration to me until I finally figured out what was doing it.

But all in all I've had a very good experience with Mandrake 10.1. This is on a Presario 2190US laptop, and as you can see, your mileage may vary.