Hi.
I downloaded Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago - I'm posting this from it. Would anyone like a copy? It's four CDs, and so far it all seems to work pretty well. I'm in Norwich if you'd like to collect them, or I could probably make it to the next meeting (Thursday at the City Gate?) if people would like me to bring them.
Joe x
Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I downloaded Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago - I'm posting this from it. Would anyone like a copy? It's four CDs, and so far it all seems to work pretty well. I'm in Norwich if you'd like to collect them, or I could probably make it to the next meeting (Thursday at the City Gate?) if people would like me to bring them.
Is this 10.1 community or final?
Ian
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!
Rgds,
Martin
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 21:19 +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I downloaded Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago - I'm posting this from it. Would anyone like a copy? It's four CDs, and so far it all seems to work pretty well.
Is this 10.1 community or final?
Ian
I think all the stuff you mention is available to MandrakeClub members via the online 'commercial' repository. Admittedly a bit of a faff it you're on dialup though.
Joe
On Friday 05 Nov 2004 23:06, 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!
Rgds,
Martin
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 21:19 +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I downloaded Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago - I'm posting this from it. Would anyone like a copy? It's four CDs, and so far it all seems to work pretty well.
Is this 10.1 community or final?
Ian
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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
On Friday 05 Nov 2004 21:19, Ian bell wrote:
Joe Button wrote:
Hi.
I downloaded Mandrake 10.1 a few days ago - I'm posting this from it. Would anyone like a copy? It's four CDs, and so far it all seems to work pretty well. I'm in Norwich if you'd like to collect them, or I could probably make it to the next meeting (Thursday at the City Gate?) if people would like me to bring them.
Is this 10.1 community or final?
Final ('Official').
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