Mandrake 9
 

Any one who has got a clue when Mandrake 9 will be released?

Jens

go straight to the source...

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90rc.php3

I think.................
 

that I read somewhere that it will be around Oct 26

i recieved a email from mandrake, and they claimed it would be around october 26.

Well, as far as shipping boxed sets, maybe that is possible, but it was at Release Candidate 1 as of August 30th(I loaded it September 2 as an alternate linux which has file sharing both ways with 8.2 and Windows but my setup keeps directories and program files for each intact). It is pretty nice, except possibly for those with CD-Burners. Somehow the Drakconf RPM sets with RC1 ended up with a slight problem-- the .png icon file for a CD-Writer got omitted from the RPM set but the call for same got put in the code. The fix was up very fast, and on http://rpmfind.net if you look for drakconf and grab version ending in .17 instead of .06 for your architecture you will find it behaves reasonably well now.

I like 9.0 rc 1 other than that one thing. To solve that I had to install grub from 8.2 to boot both Linuxes and Windows before I found the fix on first MandrakeForum (for the version, then rpmfind.net for the file).

Lesson, for download it might be a couple weeks or more sooner than October 26th for a 9.0 Gold (final) release.

The kernel I am running is a mdk 2.4.19-7 kernel.

BTW, for the latest, since there is no Mandrake specific area here yet, folks might monitor and participate in alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup. I do 5-10 posts a day there or more on weekends when have more time (as jdii1215) and pick up 400-500 a day all on Mandrake. If there were a Mandrake area here, could bring more people from all over the world.

In other news, and I am not an employee of same, Netscape is at Version 7.0 in final form for Linux and Windows(even 6.2.3 behaves with Mandrake-- albeit better without Kaffe so far). If you install StarOffice and the Java that comes with it, you can prretty much wipe Kaffe and deactivate it without problems in Mandrake 8.2 (will find out about 9.0 when it goes Gold\Final, if can then get StarOffice 6.0 to load still, or try OOo 1.0.1 ala mdk if not.).

I do not know Slackware or Debian, and need an i686 or higher intel gen tuned kernel, so will probably stick with Mandrake unless EVENTUALLY I do the LFS thing (I have not found a "pressing need" to, yet). Since Mandrake is with version 9.0 LSB compliant, might not ever need to go to LFS. Have enough system hardware resources which are compatible with the software I have that I do not need to slim down anything.

John.

Libranet is the only active derbian distro, and then they have only 4 employee,s working on it. canadian version of linux.

i have had slack installed on my computer a time or 2, you have no choice but to learn if you are using slack. i still believe those that use slack are a little smarter than the average linux user.most of them are likely programmers, IT workers, computer science grads,that type of people, and that,s not me..

I am a certified HW tech, and have a college degree, but still am not yet ready for Slack on My P4 box. Will see, as I know I will learn a whole bunch either rolling my own or sticking Slack on my box as a multiboot thing.

I also like GUI science, not as much a CLI environment, so will prob be a while for LFS for me.

John.

Just a note, RC2 is now out :D

And it has the new version of Xfree on it. 4.2.1

Yep, just loaded it, thanks. Had to reburn CD2, that ISO will not burn right at over 16X for some reason.

Mandrake Control Center works, have not had time to play beyond that.

John.

RC2................
 

is as smooth as a gravy sandwich. Abot to install SO6.

It is good, but rc1 broke the SO6 installer for some reason, as did two betas before it. If SO6 does not install, search for oowriter, as open office is bundled with rc2.

Unfortunately, the installer itself apparently is NOT written in Java, but is compiled code that was processed with a pre-gcc 3.X compiler.
9.0 implements gcc 3.2, IIRC.

John.

Wireless in mandrake 9.0?
 

Anybody tried wireless in 9.0 yet? Or even installed it on a laptop?

??
 

"Yep, just loaded it, thanks. Had to reburn CD2, that ISO will not burn right at over 16X for some reason."

Burns just fine at 48x on my new Lite On! Sounds like it's time for you to upgrade.

Ok, Bax:

that was shorthand for:

CD2 of the ISO set for Mandrake Release Candidate 2 for version 9.0 of that distro does not burn right at higher speeds than 16X on some boxes-- mine included. I have a TDK 40X burner, thank you, and ISOs 1 and 3 burned perfectly at 32X (which was the max for the media I used, Literally). I burned in Madnrake 8.2, gCombust run from KDE. I saw several complaints, happy your burn worked right, but several folks from several countries who have been burning for years have advised that the 9.0 RC1 and RC2 CDs are harder to burn perfectly at very high speeds than other distros or earlier Mandrakes. The 8.2 set completely burned right at 32X setting.

Eventually, I might get a 48X and bump the RAM to 2 Gig or so, but it is more likely that the 40X12X48X TDK I got for a net of $70.00 US will last a while and that I will get a DVD+RW\+R first adn retire the CD Burner entirely once media costs fro DVD RWs drop enough to be very practical (right now, with CD-Rs at 25 cents each for good media and CD-RWs at $1.00 each to $2.50 each (depending on speed), cannot afford the media costs of the DVD form of burning yet simply due to media costs).

Basicly, though, my two tries to burn CD2 at over 16X got me:
Complete load hangs with Bluefish and Quanta both times, and a burn at 16X from the SAME ISO worked for all apps selected (about 90% of that CD's contents(with especial point of choosing Bluefish and Quanta), as I typically do a "load everything and wipe what is not needed" if I understand something to be fairly stable). RC2 does look to be very good for a late public beta. I plan to try Netscape 7.0 with it.

So, upgrade, yes, but this P4 box might just have to stay at 1.8 GIG for a while until I sell a few more custom boxes to folks-- or lots of virus cleaning fees. If there was something defective, other than an ISO that is almost full capacity for a CD-R (which tends to make things "sticky" for some boxes apparently), it was the media used. Might get better quality for next burning session of major sorts, but will probably burn slower and use up what I have on hand (about 200 left of that batch buy).

Whatever turns out to be the final case, the fact is that 2 of the 3 CDs burned at full speed, one did not at high speed, adn once reburned from same ISO file on HD at slower speed(exactly 16X set, effective calced to just over that), all the install problems disappeared.

If you are wondering, RC2 got a 40 Gig 400BB all to itself. 9.0 Gold will probably get a home on the new 80 Gigger 800JB that is coming. Seems like all I do is upgrade hardware, but such is life. :)

I agree, Liteon has a decent rep, but I need durability and extreme reliability as I burn stuff that has to be perfect several times a week. So, since I could not afford Plextor, I went with the second best brand.

At the time I upgrade CPUs, will probably go with an Intel mobo.

Right now, actually as far as Madnrake is concerned I am running an excruciatingly fast PII system(it thinks I am running a very interesting PIIX chipset from Intel, does not know about B-Step chipsets yet). What I really care about is that it is coping with it and is faster (lots) than Windows 98 and farts less with Sun Java 2 present in it than Windows does (In Windows, if I run StarOffice or Netscape, I get to restart if I want to burn with Nero-- no way, hosae!!! In Mandrake, I burn a tib slower. Oh, well, Mandrake wins again. ;) ) Running KDE without Kaffe is kinda interesting, also(in 8.2, will see about 9.0).

Back at ya, John.

Have RC3
 

it is by far Mandy's best yet. SO6 runs flawlessly.