Change in Mandrake?

wolfepak · 03-21-2005, 12:22 PM

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/.../products/2546

Has anyonwe any oppinion on this announcement?

I cannot decied if it is good or bad......

marghorp · 03-21-2005, 12:39 PM

It will sure give Mandy some more stability. So it must be a good thing.

reddazz · 03-21-2005, 01:06 PM

The biggest advantage that I can see is that Mandrake will probably be a lot more stable than previous releases. They have had a lot of stick for releasing very buggy distros in the 9.x series, but they have obviously tried to fix these issues in the 10.x series. This change however, may not go down well with those that like to be on the bleeding edge of things and like the latest and greatest software.

simeandrews · 03-21-2005, 01:43 PM

Sort of like me.

Anyway,. is this going to affect 10.2? Because 10.2 is alr4eady out-of-date gnome-wise with 2.8, now I'm going to have to wait for a year for gnome 2.14 or whatever?

wolfepak · 03-21-2005, 01:54 PM

I have had the same question.... it sure looks like they are renameing 10.2 to this 2005 thing......

reddazz · 03-21-2005, 02:06 PM

Yeah I think thats what they are going to do. I think they should have at least added KDE 3.4 and GNOME 2.10 to 2005 limited edition.

Padma · 03-21-2005, 02:31 PM

I am crossing my fingers, hoping that they will provide KDE3.4 as an "update" via urpmi. If not, then we may have to depend on good friends like thac, to keep us up to date on some of these things.

simeandrews · 03-21-2005, 02:33 PM

But they still do have the 10.2 beta page available, maybe because this is recent, but anyway, there is stil hope of an april 1st release.

simeandrews · 03-21-2005, 02:36 PM

Name: "Limited Edition 2005"
Expected date of release: Spring 2005
Technology: Based on current development branch
Support & Services: No
Release Channels: Mandrakeclub, Mandrakestore (DVD + 6 CD set)

Name: "2006"
Expected date of release: Fall 2005
Technology: Integrates Conectiva technology
Support & Services: Full
Release channels: Mandrakeclub, Mandrakestore, retail (DVD, Packs...)

Why is there no "download" under release channels?

Padma · 03-21-2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by simeandrews
Why is there no "download" under release channels?

That is one of my worries....

simeandrews · 03-21-2005, 02:48 PM

MAJOR worry, I may be stranded in an old linux world forever, because I dont want to leave urpmi behind.

Best tool ever.

xavierh · 03-21-2005, 02:56 PM

there are alwasy wasy to get around that....

reddazz · 03-21-2005, 03:14 PM

Well, if they dont provide a download version, Mandrake may end up like RHEL, with many clones and very few individuals (not corporations or businesses) using the original product.

simeandrews · 03-21-2005, 05:39 PM

What we've been talking about in this post has really shown us how much Linux is moving away from the "free beer" concept. I have found that even in the year I've used it, more things cost money, and it's hard to find a really good, easy, graphical distro without Fedora. I haven't tried fedora, but if Mandrake does what we think, it's going to be on straight away, because I've been waiting long enough already.

reddazz · 03-21-2005, 06:20 PM

There are some posts by a Mandrake employee on osnews that imply that there will still be a free version of Mandrake available for download.