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the infos are in the docs... 1cooker is developement version. Beta yes. 2 yep source. Not compiled. rpm are compiled. 3 mac processor 4 9.2 rc2 is a snapshop of cooker 2 weeks ago. So ? :-)

Damn good idea ! I'm waiting for this one !

I found a "mozilla-mail" package. Trying to install it right now. thanks for the tip !

I just installed a fresh mandrake 9.2RC2, and was surprised not to find mozilla mail. Is this the same for you ? @++ v

i don't understand why they keep XF 4.2 in sid... 4.3 has been out for a while now ! If you want a cutting edge debian, you have to run sid with a lot of non-official sources. I understand some people wanting to use gentoo !

Well, i personnaly know christian marillat (living in the same town) You can trust his mplayer pacquages, as he is the official debian gnome maintener. He has made a gnome 2.4, but debian doesn't want him to put them right now. They think it's too buggy ! (they better change the name of their "ustable" distribution ! I run sarge on my server and sid on one desktop, and i'm pissed off because sid doesn't have Xfree 4.3 Sid is far from cutting edge ! That's what make me try mandrake...

Despites massive demonstration, European parlement vote FOR softaware patents. Some amendments were made that may protect software. Nothing really clear, and we shall stay awake.

Nice ! why did you chose to use "--allow-force" ? @++ V

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/torrent/ They are NOT available yet in bittorrent but I hope someone will put the files on some ftp at the end of the week, when it will be released. the goal of this if to give club members some advance on others...

OOo is now RC5 ! May be mdk holds 9.2 until final OOo

Do you buy it because you do not have broadband or to support them ? I think becoming a club member is giving more money to mdk than buying the CD.

There's some official information here: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...stimation_WarLy I agree that i would like a more tested distribution, with a final OOo, and great working Gnome 2.4. There is no info on official release of OOo 1.1 I would find it logical that mandrake put a RC3 release with final gnome and OOo before they ship 9.2

9.2 was supposed to be out yesterday, but still nothing on the servers... Are they waiting for the final version of OOo ? (still in rc4) Are they going to release a 9.2RC3 ? They haven't changed anything in their schedule.. If you have any info...

Hi, The problem is that i don't have access to lilo.conf I tried to write to lilo: failsafe noacpi noapic but still doesn't work. i tried to activate !!! the apic support in the bios but failed too i tried the last knoppix but same problem I tried to put a free bsd on it and it worked ! Seems like this computer doesn't like linux 2.4' :-(((((((((((((((

Hi, I'm trying to install Mandrake on a box of one of my friends. Tried first with 9.1 just after boot, black screen after the "press enter" So i tried F1 to boot with the text option. It goes a little than freeze I tried a knoppix (version from last chrismas), and same problem black screen after the "knoppix lang=fr" I tried a W2k install, and everything worked ! So this was not a big hardware problem.. I Re-tried with a 9.1, this time i used the other kernel (2.2 instead of 2.4). It worked and installation went fine. But if i boot on the HD, just afer lilo again the black screen... Today i tried 9.2 rc2 Same behaviour While trying the text option, it crashes at about the same time as with 9.1, but this time i've got an error message of the kernel wich loops at the screen where there is the world "APIC" I have search about that and it seems to be related to SMP, but this is a classical motherboard with via kt400 and one athlon 2800+ Please help !

I use debian testing on my server But mdk is far supperior for a desktop. Things just work out of the box ! If you want to give debian a shot, use a hard install of a knoppix.

Thanks for your answer. I don't know about the HCF drivers. What's this ? As a club member, did you use any of their RPMs ? Or where they useless for you ? Is there some must have stuff ?

Hi, I have discovered recently the rpms from PLF, texsar, and java/flash/pdf on this server. So i'm wondering, what other RPM do the Mandrake club access provides ? I do not want to speak of subscribing to this club for suporting mandrake, this is another debate, today i'm only interested in the rmp you get. What are club rpm ?

I was an happy W2k user. then i moved from university and decided to biuld a router/firewall for adsl and a little lan at home/ With a lot of help from a friend, i installed a debian (stable) as a gateway/server. It has worked pretty well since. I recently made a new installation with a sarge. Installing and configurating everything is really not an easy task ! I tried to put a sid as a dual boot on my home desktop but it's pretty hard to use (no working sound...) At work, i decided to move from windows to linux, and tried the mdk 9.1. I was very please to see an esily build system wich just works ! I was productivity right out of the box, with an already nice selection of the best apps. urpmi is a great tool, reminding me of apt-get. Everything is pretty well rounded. (supermount, localisation, sound...) I find it complicated to make some stuff work (java, pdf, flash) until i discovered this site and the already made rpm... Now i'm starting to play with plf ad texsar rpm... For me, a desktop distribution should work nicely and fast right out of the box, & should support hardware autodetection & should solve dependancies. So the 2 distributions that are interesting for me are mandrake and hard disk install of knoppix. I will try the hard knoppix at home to replace my not so good sid, but mandrake fullfil all my needs right now... And i am downloading the 9.2 rc2....

Yep, no info on mandrake site. Appeared on some ftp since last night. (rpm find) I'm downloading it at 650Ko/s, there must not be too much people on the server !