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Originally Posted by plextorman
Just installed Mandrake 10.0.Looks nice on first impressions.I`ll let you all know what I think of it later.Ooooodles of apps with it as always....
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Very nice indeed, and very buggy as well. If you are on broadband then the first thing you should do is setting up your URPMI repositories via "easy URPMI" (
www.urpmi.org ), set everything there including contrib, Penguin Liberation Front, update source etc and perform an update ASAP. Mind you that kernel updates are NOT shown in urpmi (most convenient GUI for urpmi is Mandrake Control Center/upgrade software), you have to get them manually.
Some things don't work perfectly well here yet (e.g. wine works once in a blue moon...), but in general this should be the best Mandrake release I've ever used- and there are quite a few. The new 4.6.3 kernel still has some glitches, and it's not as fast as 2.4.X, but it's rock solid and with native support for things that could be a pain to setup in former kernel versions.
If you want to toy with packages/add remove software very frequently and you can spare 2.5GB of harddisk space, then you can put somewhere there the four distrubution ISO's (make them three, if you don't have access to mandrake Club, or Five, if you have the Powerpack version), and mount them permantently via the "mnt" command, or via the filesystem module of webmin. then, simply put the mount points at your URPMI sources instead of the physical CD's... that way you won't have to change any media at your drives when installing software.