Martin Collins wrote:
I installed Mandrake 10.1 Community off the Linux Format cover DVD (December issue) and it's OK. Love Gnome 2.6 and finally now boot into Gnome as default rather than KDE.
Later, and as a Mandrakeclub standard member, I downloaded and installed the 4 x CD 10.1 Official, and was a bit cheesed off. There's no NVIDIA driver supplied as default, no flash player, no acrobat reader, no Sun Java runtime or SDK - in fact none of the "commercial" apps. The NVIDIA installer from NVIDIA fails to build the kernel module correctly (with no decent error message and yes kernel source was installed), which just leaves you with the riva framebuffer driver and no 3D. B U T - all of these were supplied with the 10.1 Community DVD from Linux Format.
So I gave up trying to get my 3D card working with Official and went back to Community edition which has working NVIDIA 3D "out of the box".
It would seem you get a better deal buying Linux Format than being a Mandrakeclub member and I don't think I'll bother renewing my subscription. 10.1 will be off my box just as soon as Fedora Core 3 is out!
Very interesting. Linux format also carried Mandrake 10.0 community some time ago but that was so broken it was nearly useless so I went back to 9.2. I have the Mandrake 10.1 on Linux Format but was worried it was the comminity version and as broken as the 10.0 comminity was. It appears from you post that this time around the opposite is true. In which case I may well try to update my 9.2.
Ian