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You call that slow???

It has taken me an hour and a half to get 2.6% of the DVD powerpack. Only 109 seeds and 513 Leeches. Download rate is slowly progressing, started off about 10KB's, now its just started to hit 40KB

The majority of the mirrors should have it, but like jboy said this is a club thing, and the mirrors are guaranteed to choke, that's why the club have got several guys to seed for bittorrent well in advance! Like jboy said, public release isn't until 26th October, i believe box sets will be available from the 10th, I think! As much as there is bad karma between me an the club right now, i'll still be getting the iso's tomorrow, providing nothing screws up, well it is Mandy were talking about!

Errr, while kinda...... from now on there are no more desktop updates, AFAIK, BAse updates stop end of Feb. You can check the dates Here

Official, the club's getting first digs about ten days before orders for boxes are available, and about a month before free is publically available. Early seeders were given access to the Iso's on Friday, club members should be able to download from the start of next week (Monday, if the sources are to be trusted). Although I reckon the excrement is going to hit the fan, as it appears some "Early seeders" aren't interested in seeding at all, the just wanted first shot, but then again only time will tell!

You shoulda waited a couple of days for 2006! Might see ya around the club, if ye can be bothered...

Cooker is currently frozen, the snapshot is (or should I say "should be") exactly what you will get from the free version (i'm running on cooker right now without a hitch, although I haven't tried to update anything since the last freeze), available November-ish. One of the gripes over at the club is that the last time anything commercial was tested was way back at Beta3, none of the commercial packages were tested en mass under either of the RC's. Just need to wait and see!

The early seeders now have access to the iso's. This was planned to be implemented four days before the release to club members, which is estimeted to be 3rd October

In all honesty, who cares about Distrowatch????? I didn't even discover it until about a month after using Mandy. In fact I looked at ubuntu before Mandy, but I still chose Mandy. Most people, when getting their first insight either visit the site of a distro they know of, or google! For me google prompted me to go look at linux iso, yada yada! So ok, Distrowatch's articles can be handy if you want to keep an eye on whats hapenning, but, in my opinion, its hardly the best place for noobs to browse distro's and take their pick. Again, who cares about distrowatch's rankings, especially when somewhere down the line, there will be a flaw in the statistics (i.e. outliers, etc) that will distort them! What's the saying,

Thought I remind you guys that are still using 10.0, but if the following page is anything to go by, this version will no longer be supported after Friday of this week (i.e. 30 Sep). http://www.mandriva.com/security/productlifetime

All packages in main "should be stable" as it has been frozen to be used for 2006 final, contrib isn't, if anything is unstable, it will be in there!

It appears that that crazy penguin is gone forever, but a big thmbs up for the replacement, everything looks way more professional, IMHO (especially the installer and the boot spashes). Although I'm not so sure about the sound that plays upon starting KDE (I heard that this mas a Mandriva addition, oh well they had to make for the loss of the penguine somehow). Feeling quite brave as I am running on cooker the now, eeeeeeeeeeeeek! Won't be once I finally get a hold of the ISO's proper! Cheers

Try www.linuxworld.co.uk, and get your cd's from there. I believe it will cost you less than what you paid for that particular magazine. Once you have your discs, install, any problems, come back here, no doubt someone will put you on the right track. As for the next version, not sure how quickly one will appear as a cover disc, although like I said, I tend to stay away from cover discs where I can. I believe that it wont be publicly released until early November (club members should be able to access it from early October, the public release is supposed to be happening about a month or so after!) Cheers

As far as I know, YES. Dammit there's no gloat smiley here :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Forget the gloat smiley, turns out, in another twist of events, that club users will have to wait a couple of weeks to get a hold of the iso's. Mandriva does not want them released before the box's are available!

I have a sneaking suspicion that you got The Mandriva "Special edition" of Linux Format (not cheap either, £10 I believe). The magazine attached was all about getting started, or at least it was supposed to be, did you read it? (May be a silly question, but one to ask). Personally, I bought LF once for the CD's, and vowed never to do it again, I had numerous problems with the version of Mandriva they gave me, (and I know for a fact that they have messed around with the iso's before releasing them). the problems disappeared when I downloaded Mandriva, from Mandriva itself! My advice to you is: If you have broadand, try downloading and burning the iso's yourself! OR Ask a friend to do it (tell them there's beer in it for them) Ultimately stick around here, most of us were newbies once (some of us still are, like me) as I have learnt more here from these guys than anywhere else! Cheers

As far as I know, YES. Dammit there's no gloat smiley here :D

Hey guys, Did the verification manually, like the rawrite script does, and the md5sums matched, tried installing from the DVD, serious problems as X wont start (NVidia module isn't working properly), but that's another topic! Thanks for the help!

John, It's DVD-R discs that I am using at the moment, but thanks for the advice. Guys, I am checking the md5sum using the following bash command for the iso file itself: md5sum -c ./Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-DVD.i586.md5.asc As for the DVD I am using the option in k3b to 'verify written data' which compares the md5sum of the disc to the md5sum of the original image.

Hey there guys, Having, er, problems. In the interest of cutting down the number of dics flying around, I downloaded the DVD iso the other day (4.4GB), well I tried to burn it with K3B last night, only to find that each time the burned disc did not match the md5sum. This was burned at 2x (the lowest my burner would let me, approx 2.7Mb/s. I am considering using other media (I have had problems with TDK CD's in the past), however I have noticed something strange. Konqueror reports the file siz to be 352 Mb, where as Nautilus shows the correct size of 4.4Gb. The md5sum of the iso is correct. Any suggestions guys? For info I'm running on a Athlon 64 3200+, with 1Gb RAM (2 x 512 DDR 400, paired to enable dual channel), burning on a NEC +/-16 DVD RW. I'm rinning 2005 LE, / and /home are just under 40Gb with plenty of free space and when I am burning I basically do nothing else, I just leave the comp to get on with it. Any help appreciated, cheers guys!

Solarian, hold off a couple of days, Final is Scheduled for Friday 16th (to quote Mr Williamson on the Club Forums). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> To update on the above post, the schedule now sets 20th (Tuesday) as the estimated release date for 2006.

I agree, the old penguin was plain freaky, this looks more professional! Problem is, I can't get 2006 final soon enough, man ma palms are sweaty...

There are no DVD's, officially that is. At the moment the RC's are only CD's. However you can get an unnofficial DVD for RC2 from here: http://www.gaganc.org/2006rc2.iso.torrent. Alternatively there is a bash script to merge the cd's into a DVD iso you could try for yourself, found here: http://webpages.charter.net/upsnag/misc/mdvcd2dvd.sh.gz Cheers

Erm John, not meaning to be rude or anything mate, but that post of Adam's was made about four months ago.

Solarian, hold off a couple of days, Final is Scheduled for Friday 16th (to quote Mr Williamson on the Club Forums).

RC2 should be appearing on mirrors at its release was announced today: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux