Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 27, 2004 01:36, John Wilson wrote: ... > Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-) > > ttfn > > John Actually, there is something we can all do about bittorrent, or at least those of us on high speed connections: leave your bittorrent client running, even after you've downloaded everything, so that other people can upload from you. I did this for a while on the Windoze machine I used to download Mandrake in the first place. But I had to keep going on a vpn for work, which got in the way, I've been meaning to start doing it on my Mandrake box, but I don't have the iso's there at the moment. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 26, 2004 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: > > On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > > On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. > > > > > > > > There's now 10.1 beta. > > > > > > Thanks for the information. > > > > > > I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't > > > realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta > > > > The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get > > to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the > > official relase. > > That's the cynical view. It is supposed to be the stabilization release > that will be used to cut the next official release, and then updates go > directly into the dist tree, unlike official, which sees all updates in the > updates directory > > cooker \ > \ Community \--- > \ Official > > > In any event the "new" Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha > > stage. Actually I wasn't trying to be cyncial at all. :-) To me a public/late beta is exactly what we're getting with the Community Edition. And I'm not saying that it's a bad thing rather it's a good thing. It's a test on a much larger scale than Mandrake would otherwise be able to do and with some of the issues found in 10CE which were resolved by 10OE I'd say it's a very good plan. One that I'm happy to be part of. Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
Thanks Charlie, John and Carroll for your replies. I was off the list for some time and lost track of what was happening to Community. Am now much clearer about the situation. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: > > > > > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. > > > > > > There's now 10.1 beta. > > > > Thanks for the information. > > > > I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't > > realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta > > The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get > to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the official > relase. > > In any event the "new" Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha > stage. > > ttfn > > John Of course, there is always the possibility that the OP has some older CD's that are labelled "Mandrake 10 Community)". -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: > On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: > > > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. > > > > There's now 10.1 beta. > > Thanks for the information. > > I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise > that it had changed to 10.1 beta The Community label is for public betas of Mandrake releases. We all get to be guinea pigs before the rest of the world gets a crack at the official relase. In any event the "new" Community will be 10.1 which is still in alpha stage. ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered Linux User 362316 *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 25, 2004 11:04:11, Keith Powell wrote: > What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? > > Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to > the package versions in it? > > I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the > information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have > a dial-up connection. > > Many thanks for any information. > > Cheers > > Keith I believe Community is 10.0 + updates. I could be wrong but probably not since the tree structure seems to be a moving target for the last 8 months. 10.1 is based on Alpha1+new packages. An install from the cooker snapshot (Alpha1 ISOs) would in all likelihood require an immediate ftp "upgrade" to the 10.1 tree. It would still be quicker (maybe) than a full FTP install of 10.1 though. There should be another Alpha, or possibly a Beta snapshot soon anyway. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Alpha 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 12:03:43 up 2 days, 21:28, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.20, 0.26 Unfair animal names: - -- tsetse fly -- bullhead - -- booby -- duck-billed platypus - -- sapsucker -- Clarence -- Gary Larson -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBA/dYZqvqlrLPr5YRAuhpAKCAeEYR/L2loxwmYgugF3NRr3yt2QCfUITG Mt8YI5+KEq//TXxIS2KdsGU= =Ixyo -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: > On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: > > What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? > > > > Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard > > to the package versions in it? > > > > I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find > > the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only > > have a dial-up connection. > > > > Many thanks for any information. > > > > Cheers > > > > Keith > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. > > There's now 10.1 beta. Thanks for the information. I thought that Mandrake were keeping the 10 Community label. Didn't realise that it had changed to 10.1 beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote: > What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? > > Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to > the package versions in it? > > I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the > information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a > dial-up connection. > > Many thanks for any information. > > Cheers > > Keith > > Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake10 Community
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please? Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to the package versions in it? I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the information on Google, and can't download it just to find out. I only have a dial-up connection. Many thanks for any information. Cheers Keith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
