[plug] Mandrake community or Mandrake 10 ?

[Chris Caston]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 11:40, ranime wrote:
> Hi,
> Several questions I have, hope someone can advise me please.
> 
> Mandrake Community or Mandrake 10 ?
> I was looking at the Mandrake web site trying to find out the difference 
> between them ,Not having much luck.
> 

I think Mandrake official is just the 4th cd.

3 cd = community 4 cds = offical

> Mandrake Community is reviewed in the June issue of APC mag.
> They say it costs US $66 ?
> 
You can download it. A link was posted recently from
planetmirror.com.au. If you need it I'm sure I can dig it up.

> Also the APC mag has a giveaway DVD (x7 CD ISO's) of Debian 3.0r2.
> is this going to be any more up to date than Mandrake ?
> 
The short answer is no. The long answer may start a flame war.
If you want to use Debian as a desktop I suggest only using the first CD
and then upgrading to Sid.

Let me know if you need help with this.

> What is the most recent version ?

That is the current stable.
> Anyone care to clear this confusion for me please.
> 
> 
> I have had no success trying to get apps like Audacity updated (to get 
> OGG output) and xawtv recording anything etc... Iam using Mandrake 9-1.
> 
> I have found that the Knoppix (Debian based) bootable CD , has all this 
>   working well with my hardware.
> 
> So, I wonder which installation will give me what Knoppix can once 
> installed.
> 

You can install Knoppix to the harddrive with knxhdinstall but Knoppix
has a lot of stuff running so is very bloated. Try Morphix at
http://www.morphix.org

Morphix is not as up to date as the current Knoppix but is is less
bloated.

> Max....
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
-- 
Linux is ready for the desktop like a Boeing F-22 is ready for the
run-way.