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Mandrake 2006 Will Integrate Conectiva Components
Linzer writes "Mandrakelinux just issued this press release presenting (1) a new one-year release cycle, with a year-based naming scheme and (2) their updated development roadmap. In a nutshell: the upcoming 10.2 becomes a transitional release, labeled 'Limited Edition 2005.' Next fall will see Mandrakelinux 2006, merging Mdk and Conectiva know-how (and possibly some know-not?)
For the amnesic: Mandrakesoft and Conectiva recently merged." Not everyone is pleased, though: Tingulli 3 writes "As a member of the Italian Mandrakelinux translation team , I spent nights translating some packages to be on schedule for the 10.2 release. I was quite disappointed when I discovered that a new roadmap has been announced and that there will NOT be any 10.2 release, without anybody announcing it to the community."
RTFA.... "Later, by fall of this year, the new boxed "2006" release will fully integrate Conectiva technology and Mandrakesoft online services into a new product." Not fall of '06, but fall of '05 will see the "2006" release.
I have tried many different flavors of Linux. Fedora, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake and my new favorite Suse 9.2. I have to say that my subjective impression of Mandrake is that it is just odd. This doesn't surprise me then that they would make some odd business decisions.
Many of the distros features seemed like they had been thrown in with the basic intent of trying to be like Windows and now this naming scheme seems to remind me of the same thing.
'Limited Edition 2005'= 'Windows ME'Just sounds too similar for my taste!
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Different strokes for different folks, since Mandrake 10.1 I've no problems installing it on hundreds of machines. If anything 10.1 was a step in the right direction. I did try Fedora, but it was a nightmare. Nothing has come close to the ease of use of Mandrake Linux of any distro that I've tried. I can convert people from Windows to Linux because Mandrake has everything they did in windows minus Microsoft office, but that's why Open Office exist ;-)
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I think I remember Conectiva pioneered APT-rpm. Is Mandrake planning on ditching urpmi? (I thought it was supposed to compare favorably with yum/up2date). Or has Conectiva got tons of experience with udev, and Mandrake would like to replace supermount, or something? Or is this all just to say Mandrake-"2006" will have pretty good brazilean portugese support?
What exactly does Conectiva have to offer?
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PClinuxOS has done just that. It is a live-cd that is installable and generally is a bit more up to date than Mandrake.
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/ind
This project was started by Texstar who used to supply updated rpms for Mandrake (such as the latest kde) when the official Mandrake community did not.
It has those parts of Mandrake that I liked (such as unified menus, which allows you to use whatever window manager that you wish and still have the same menu structure) and ditches those things I did not like (such as 6 month release schedule... I am glad to see that they are moving it to a yearly schedule as long as that means that their yearly release is actually stable.)
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein
Yes, yum is buggy and apt-get doesn't work with mixed 32/64 bit systems. Smart, however, is looking good - although currently still in development.
I don't know how well these three compare to urpmi. Does urpmi handle multiple installed versions of a package (eg, both 32 and 64 bit) correctly?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
Right! As a long time MDK-user I now and then think that I must try other distros on another PC to see, if I'm missing out on something. Mostly they work fine, but every time I realize that MDK is what I want. I am no expert and no computer-nerd, but I can find my way around and MDK has long served me privately (2 PC's) and at work 2 servers + LTSP with 25 users and I have never experienced any problem that was not caused by my own fumbling around. MDK 8.2 9.1 10.0 and 10.1 has worked flawlessly out of the box for me on a large number of different PC's with various netcards, but I don't claim that other distros are nessesarily 'bad' just because I didn't make them work properly.. I shall look forward to any new MDK whatever they call it and shall continue to try out other distros...