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Mandrakelinux 10.2 Beta 1 Toured

Posted by michael on from the ten-percent-more-for-the-same-price dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The first beta of Mandrakelinux 10.2 has been released. New package versions and features include some changes to the installation program, kernel 2.6.10, glibc 2.3.4 and gcc 3.4.3. You also get KDE 3.3.2, Gnome, 2.8.1, and GTK 2.6.1. Mozilla-firefox replaces Mozilla, and you will also find gimp 2.2, cdrecord 2.01.01a21 with DVD+R Dual Layers support, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, Postgresql 8.0, and MySQL 4.1.9. Improvements are also seen in the Mandrakelinux Control Center ergonomy, to ease the network configuration with a better integration of the firewall tool. OSDir tours Mandrakelinux 10.2 Beta 1 with GNOME and KDE in their Screenshot Tours."

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  1. Mozilla-firefox replaces Mozilla by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does this also mean it comes with Thunderbird to replace the mail?

    I like the idea of Mozilla as a whole suite of applications, that way you dont have to install multiple applications, when web+email are the 2 more popular applications. To each his own I guess, Thunderbird is rather nice and works with my exchange server (imap).

    Also.

    In the next betas, you will be able to copy all the CDs packages on your hard drive, so that you will not need the CDs anymore afterwards to install a new package with urpmi or rpmdrake. Moreover the installation will allow to boot from a USB key (if you cannot boot with a CD), and to save the packages selection on a USB key.

    Nice, I actually took my cdrom out of my linux box but it has a USB port. Handy, now to test usb booting. :)

  2. Too much focus on packages by fm6 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Does it really matter whether a distro comes with Firefox of Mozilla? If you don't like the packages they provide by default, you can probably find the alternative you want on the CD or Web, or build it yourself. What matters is the core functionality of the distro: how's the installation software? The admin tools? Does it come with drivers for my hardware, and are the drivers easy to install and configure? Are all those obscure little configuration files correctly written and easy to tweak? Never mind how many different Window Managers there are, is it easy to switch between them, so I can experiment?

    One important difference between Mandrake and other distros is that it's compiled for recent processors instead of the works-everywhere 386 target. Which in theory should make some difference in performance, but you never hear anything about that.