Is Community a cooker version...?
 

HI just wondering about the naming conventions for this distro. Is the Community the cooker development version of this distro? I just noticed there was a new issue of 10.1 'Official download', and I had previously loaded 10.1 'Community Download'. So what is the difference, please? Thanks in advance.

Kyle

Cooker and community ar e not the same thing..

Cooker is kinda like, always the cutting edge break your system cause it's unstable packages and kernel. Think Debian SID, but more unstable..

Community is.. more like a release canadiate. When a new version is being tested (recently 10.1), they release the Community betas and release canidates (i think the latest community is RC 2 or the second release canidate). After the are finished testing those, they make the Official version, which for the first few months (maybe weeks..) of release is only avliable to Mandrakeclub Members, until they publicly release the first 3 cd's onto their FTP servers. (you can buy all four or five of them through ther store). Official versions tend to be more stable, as shows on my system... it breaks far less often when I use the official over the community.

So, to answer your question, community is released before Official, always free for download, has the same packages as official, but tends to be more unstable, and crashy. (yes, I just said crashy).

If you want the cooker (which isn't supported by Mandrake, it's kind of a community built deal) keep scrolling down on the mandrakelinux download page.

The latest community is 10.1 which in a way is a stable distro in it's own right but is the basis of Mandrake 10.1 Official which is basicaly 10.1 Community+patches.