Mandrake v10.0 Officials ISOs!!!

[big_gie]

Has been out since mai 25th...

Anyone tryed it?

[scarecrow]

Anyone tryed it?

Oh yes, since they were available for the Club Members... (= long time ago, maybe more than 2 weeks). Same thing as "Community" plus official updates- actually I never installed the "Official" CD's, just used them as URPMI repositories.
Mandrake 10 is the best Mandrake ever, and as such one of the bert Linux distros ever released (probably only that ancient RedHat 7.2 and Slackware 9.1 were more important...).

[serjer]

zat sounds nice,hopefully i might get hold of them
4 the moment on monday i'm supposed 2 b gettin a copy of knoppix 3.4

[big_gie]

You convinced me scarecrow, will try it instead of Fedora C2 or Gentoo for my laptop

Hope I will be able to make it work nice!

thanx

[scarecrow]

Some tips for easy Mandrake software management via URPMI:
1. Put the 3/4/5 (depending on the Mandrake version you are using, plain, Official or Powerpack) CD ISO's in a folder of your HD, and mount them somwewhere, eg:
mount -o loop -t iso9660 Mandrakelinux10.0-"n".iso /mnt/cd"x", as root ("n" is a variable, depending on your ISO's name, as well as "x", can be anything you like). Of course you can mount the ISO's permanently at startup putting an analogous script at etc/init.d, or you can use Webmin to do the same thing (system/disk and network filesystems module). That way you can install software without having to swap CD's on your drives, just put /mnt/cd"x" as URPMI repository (mcc as root, software management/media manager).
2. Put Urpmi repositories for main, updates, contrib and Penguin Liberation Front (non-GPL stuff). Simply use Easy urpmi and pick up the fastest links for you.
3. Some more nice sites with URPMI repositories:
- Drakian RPM's (www.drakian.org). They are Debian packages, converted to Mandrake RPM's. Many of them won't work properly, so use with care or don't use at all!
Type at a root console
urpmi.addmedia drakian http://www.drakian.org/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz
(by the way if you don't like typing some Mandrake consoles, eg KDE's konsole can cut and paste...). If you decide using Drakian, then add that one too:
urpmi.addmedia http://www.nexedi.org/static/RPMS/ with synthesis.hdlist.cz
- Thac's RPM's (http://rpm.nyvalls.se/), mainly sound and multimedia oriented
urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.0/RPMS with hdlist.cz
(as above)
- Norlug's (aka Chip Guccio) RPM's, http://norlug.org/~chipster/ (mixed stuff)
urpmi.addmedia NORLUG-10.0 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/n...ake-10.0/RPMS/ with hdlist.cz
- Eslrahc repository, holding good XFCE RPM's (the official Mandrake ones stink!), gstreamer stuff etc.
urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz

There are also some more repositories for MDK RPM's, but they are commercial, so don't bother... MDK 10 is a great OS and you don't have to pay a single penny to get it running. Actually using all the above software sources, installation and uninstallation via URPMI is almost as good as with apt-get, and surely more secure than Windows installers (and equally easy, if not easier...).

Big_gie: If you can REALLY cope with Gentoo, then look no further... but it is a huge pain in the... to compile everything from (optimized) sourcecode- for a medium oomph computer you will need 2-3 days to compile just KDE!

[serjer]

go 4 gentoo if u like 2 compile everything by urself,it's mostly recommended 4 those who wants a firm control & customization of their OS

[big_gie]

Wow thanks scarecrow!

2~3 days for kde... hum I think I'll pass my turn

Can't wait to try mandrake So much to do for the next 2 weeks...

Thanx again for the infos!