[plug] Mandrake community or Mandrake 10 ?

[Rennie]

I'm currently using Mandrake "Cooker". I *think* it is the bleeding edge 
developer version somewhat similar to Debian unstable. I can't remember how 
exactly I stumbled upon it but it seem to be what I was after for home use - 
all the latest bells and whistles, not the greatest stability. 

That's it... I remember now; I was using SuSE 8.* and was having trouble 
finding KDE 3.2 rpm's for it (the day after it was released...I must have it, 
must have it... ), and not willing to go back to RedHat, I found Mandrake 
"Cooker" did have these rpms available.

I've been very happy with it since. It satisfies my desire for bi-weekly 
update of just about everything, including kernels, and combined with the PLF 
rpms all video formats I throw at it, and Xine, just work...except the very 
latest MS format (WM??9??). Sorry no idea about the OGG stuff, but I'd guess 
it works.

As we speak I'm updating from mirror.pacific.net.au. I'm on a good 56K 
connection so usually just leave it downloading overnight. 

To add this particular repository to you Mandrake Machine's urpm source list 
use the following command (all one line).

urpmi.addmedia PacificCooker 
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS 
with ../base/synthesis.hdlist.cz

Then do "urpmi --auto-select".....if you're game. That one upgrades all 
packages that are available.

Note the "PacificCooker" bit is just a name for the source, you can change 
that to what ever makes sense to you.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Rennie

P.S. My machine seems to think it is "Mandrake version 10.1" ???  :-/ 

On Sat, 22 May 2004 11:51 am, Chris Caston wrote:
> 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....
> >
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