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Mandrake 6.1 NOT Out (Update)

Posted by Hemos on from the mandrake-of-enlightenment-is-not-making-this dept.

swestbrook writes "It appears that Mandrake 6.1 final is out. It's starting to appear on the mirrors everywhere-grab it from here or the usual places. No news of the release on their website but details should show up today. Update: 09/14 10:44 by H : I've been informed by Mandrake that it is not out yet-they are still going through the beta process, so don't be surprised by bugs in the current beta. You've been warned.

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  1. Re:I'll give it a try by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Or maybe, *just maybe* /. should have waited until Mandrakesoft made the official announcement. This way all the mirror sites have the updates propagated out to them, iso images can be verified, etc.

    This way, both Mandrakesoft and the mirror site admins would be much better prepared for the /. effect.

    Keep this in mind before you post a complaint like "The server's too slow... where are the mirrors???"

  2. Penetration into retail/wholesale outlets by Suydam · · Score: 2
    Last time I was at Costco, they were selling Mandrake Linux and Caldera Linux only. Needless to say, this surprised the crap out of me. I had expected to see Red Hat there.

    Either way, does anyone have data as to which of the major store-chains you can buy which distros at?

    This would be good information to have online somewhere for potential buyers (at least those buyers who research their distros before buying one).

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    1. Re:Penetration into retail/wholesale outlets by Mudhiker · · Score: 2

      It's not a very scientific observation, but I've seen Redhat and sometimes other distros on the shelves in mall software stores and the like. Our university bookstore is still pretty behind it with computers...prices are insane for 3 year old software...but they have linux books (cd's bundled.)

      I think perhaps the Distro people themselves could provide data on how many units are sold and how...


      Costco tends to not diversify too much, they sell whatever they can get cheap. That's why their product line sometimes changes slightly over the months....

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  3. Try... by Malc · · Score: 2

    Mandrake's main web-site

    Follow the "free download" link under "Get Your Mandrake!" to: Mandrake mirror sites

  4. I have been disappointed so far by jtseng · · Score: 2
    I got a copy of Mandrake6 from Cheapbytes a couple of weeks ago and installed it. So far it seems unstable compared to the original RH6 and it doesn't seem to shut down properly either. When I turned my computer on this morning, the system had to recover from a pretty bad case of filesystem corruption b/c the system shut down wrong when I turned it off last night. Although it was the worst case I've seen so far, unfortunately it was not the first time re: Mandrake.

    When is RH6.1 coming out?!?!?!

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  5. Re:new KDE by Scola · · Score: 2

    Mandrake integrates a little more with kde (aka they use kdm instead of gdm by default), they have a little updater app which lets you get the latest updates easily, they debug and test a bit more than redhat and thus tend to have a few less "quirks", they ship with egcs/pgcc (now gcc/pgcc) by default, and compile all the binaries with it which should lead to a 5-30% speedup depending upon app.

  6. man, i almost forgot..... by Roofus · · Score: 2

    mandrake has a listserv and newsgroup (alt.os.linux-mandrake i think). These places are stocked with people who will answer any question about mandrake that you have. i've gotten help from everything from quake3 to setting up a domain with bind

  7. kernel 2.2.13? by UM_Maverick · · Score: 2

    Has anyone noticed that the distro appears to include kernel 2.2.13? I'm downloading it now, and there's a file called "kernel-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm". AFAIK, 2.2.12 is the latest. Is mandrake doing custom kernels, did they screw up their names, or is it something entirely differnet? Note that I haven't installed it yet, so I don't know what the kernel actually is...

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  8. Re:Question regarding Redhat vs. Mandrake... by Arandir · · Score: 2

    Mandrake hasn't been based on Redhat since 5.2. Yes, that's correct, 5.2. They forked the distros with 5.3 and everything else since has been their own.

    They attempt to stay Redhat compatible, and this includes adding some Redhat apps and keeping the configurations the same. But they realized a while ago that they need to be their own distro and not merely a "better Redhat".

    Cooker is their "development" distro. It is always being worked on and updated. When they feel that cooker is relatively stable, they fork off a beta distro, get it fully stable and release it.

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  9. Re:new KDE by phutureboy · · Score: 2

    Mandrake also uses UltraDMA on IDE drives which support it, for a substantial speed increase, and tweaks some stuff in the KDE configuration.

    It runs fine on my workstation, but my friend has been having DMA-related problems that prevent him from installing it. Maybe we'll try 6.1 today.

  10. Not Out Yet by swestbrook · · Score: 2

    I apologize to everyone that I spoke a little too soon. My mistake.. thousands of rotten apples thrown my way.

  11. Not quite ready for prime time. by koleslaw · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't rush to download this for a little while. People have suggested waiting for KDE 1.1.2, but that isn't the only reason. The 6.1 directories have been around for a couple of days and the contents are still changing. Here is a few of the files that have changes at a Mandrake ftp mirror (ftp.tux.org): 09.12.99 20:10:00 11R6-contrib-3.3.2-8mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 20:10:00 klyx-0.10.0-3mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 20:10:00 libmikmod-3.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 20:10:00 libmikmod-devel-3.1.6-2mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 20:11:00 man-pages-ko-1.1-8mdk.noarch.rpm 09.12.99 20:11:00 mikmod-3.1.6a-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 20:11:00 xanim-28010-6mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 22:20:00 cdrecord-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 22:20:00 cdrecord-cdda2wav-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 22:20:00 cdrecord-devel-1.8a27-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.12.99 22:30:00 bzip2-0.9.5d-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 0:15:00 enlightenment-0.16.devel.6-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 00:26:00 mkisofs-1.12b5-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 15:05:00 rhs-printfilters-1.57-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 16:45:00 kdebase-1.1.2-8mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 16:45:00 kdegraphics-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 16:50:00 kdelibs-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 16:55:00 kdemultimedia-1.1.2-3mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 17:05:00 kdesupport-1.1.2-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 17:05:00 kdetoys-1.1.2-2mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 17:10:00 kdeutils-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 17:15:00 kdeadmin-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 21:10:00 kdenetwork-1.1.2-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 22:01:00 ppp-2.3.8-1mdk.i586.rpm 09.13.99 23:23:00 kernel-smp-fb-2.2.13-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 01:15:00 ncurses-5.0_990703-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 01:15:00 ncurses-devel-5.0_990703-4mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 03:50:00 kernel-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 03:55:00 kernel-BOOT-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:00:00 kernel-doc-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:10:00 kernel-fb-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:10:00 kernel-headers-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:10:00 kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:10:00 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm 09.14.99 04:18:00 kernel-smp-2.2.13-5mdk.i586.rpm As you can see, there is a reason this release hasn't been officially announced.

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