Cooker was from the begining available in real time on Internet (mirrored every hour) with a transparent development scheme (CVS, mailing list, changelog altert) while Rawhide was only available from time to time and with no transparency.
Additionnaly Cooker is useable. There is many people who are using it on their Desktop. This make the strenght of the system.
Mandrakesoft have created the cooker system since 1999 which is well organized with multiple tools (changelog, cvs, wiki, etc).
The difference between the Debian release cycle and the Mandrake release cycle is that Mandrake is much faster to include new features/easy to install. This idea behind this new process is to add an additional cycle with a stable branch. So increase the stability while keeping the cutting edge.
The big difference between a beta and the Mandrake Linux community is that people who will use the Mandrake Linux community will be sure that it will be maintained (ie have updates and ability to upgrade their system).
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Cooker was from the begining available in real time on Internet (mirrored every hour) with a transparent development scheme (CVS, mailing list, changelog altert) while Rawhide was only available from time to time and with no transparency.
Additionnaly Cooker is useable. There is many people who are using it on their Desktop. This make the strenght of the system.
The difference between the Debian release cycle and the Mandrake release cycle is that Mandrake is much faster to include new features/easy to install. This idea behind this new process is to add an additional cycle with a stable branch. So increase the stability while keeping the cutting edge.
The big difference between a beta and the Mandrake Linux community is that people who will use the Mandrake Linux community will be sure that it will be maintained (ie have updates and ability to upgrade their system).