Frederick Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 (edited) Hi all, I have been using Mandrake 10.2 Beta2 for just over an hour but i am already quite pleased with the changes made. 10.1 did notwork for me, but 10.2 works a charm, albeit a bit slow (but i only have 128MB of PC100 RAM on a laptop). Anyway, I was wondering if any of you tried it yet and i just wanted to start a thread that would compile the thoughts we all have on it. Cheers. Edited February 19, 2005 by Frederick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 19, 2005 Report Share Posted February 19, 2005 It does seem to take longer to boot for some reason, but other than that is very stable and workable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 It is workable, but it has trouble with my usb printer and usb mouse. It seems to have trouble running both at boot and so runs neither. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sebi Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Mandrake 10.2 beta 2 is very stable :D Had some problems with alsa (already solved) but that's all Saw no bigger bugs by now :) There are some problems with printers - not detecting correctly but you can always install it manually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arcasia Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 It seems my disk 2 and 3 have problems, as MD10.2b3 decided it couldn't install about 50 packages. I am running it on a P200 w/128MB. I figured that once I got the system up, I would just go out to the net and get the packages that didn't install. I have gone through the entire list of Dist. Sources, and every single one comes back broken. I guess I have to wait until 10.2b3 becomes an official dist. before I can update it or to add packages? Thanks in advance, Arcasia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 arcasia: cooker is what you use to update betas. However, Cooker is still not completely sync'ed following the Fall of Kenobi last weekend, so wait a day or so for everything to sync up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Arcasia Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 Ok. Thanks for the heads up. BTW: I did not see any tool in the menus for accessing the Cooker. I am fairly newbish at working with Mandrake. I used to use RH a lot, until they started stripping the enterprise type of tools out of it, for thier comercial product. I am using Mandrake for my dev machine, and Debian for the online production machines. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 to get to cooker use the easyurpmi site. as of today the mirrors are not up to date. so far beta3 looks prety good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 Well I've been using MDK 10.2 beta RC2 for a while now. I like it also, but unfortunately can't get driverloader installed http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ . On previous MDK installs I have never had a problem. Maybe its the newer kernel, but not to sure. Anyway other than that I do like it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 It is workable, but it has trouble with my usb printer and usb mouse. It seems to have trouble running both at boot and so runs neither. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have you tried disabling usb HID in the bios? Let it be enabled in software? Course when you need to get back into bios.... it can be tricky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 I've been happily running rc1 and since Sunday rc2 on my laptop, and am now configuring my desktop. Please, any problems you find, check if a bugreport exists on http://qa.mandrakesoft.com and if so, vote for it; if not, report the bug! I've noticed that suspend to disk no longer works (found references on the web that swsuspend has been messed with quite a bit, so not sure if this is due to mdk developers or general issues), but in exchange now suspend to ram / standby works. My wireless usb dongle no longer works, no clue why - the driver is there and all... I've noted some more smaller things, on the whole it will be nice, but I can already hear people complaining that there is no kde 3.4, no gnome 2.10 and no OOo 2.0. Ah well.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 1, 2005 Report Share Posted April 1, 2005 artee: it's a bit late now, unfortunately, warly was in the middle of building the release ISOs when I left for work this morning... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 my impression was so far okay, except for some minor things that left me puzzled. the boot-time takes longer than in 10.1 (as already mentioned), the design is downright ugly imho (someone called that something like a stoned daffy duck and it fits it well). but the biggest surprise was the follwoing thing: i did a basic install without kde and gnome, but blackbox. i wanted to put xfce4.2 on it later. i logged in, no problem there but when i tried to open ANY application, it didn't do anything. i checked the system and found out that EVERY application, every file, every folder belonged to root and no one else, so no matter what i wanted to do, i had to do it as root. sounds weird, eh? i tried with a new user, checked the permissions, the security level and everything had the same settings, my 10.0 and 10.1 had day in and day out. and everything worked like a charm there. i know that this can be manually edited with a few commands from the cli, but for an untrained linux user, this is something of an horror, i guess. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted April 2, 2005 Report Share Posted April 2, 2005 (edited) Made a ftp install some weeks ago, regularly updated. Seems I am the only one who likes the splash screen, it's sweet :-) The kde 3.3.2 version rocks !!! Snappy, responsive. Good decision. (Yes, I tried thac's 3.4., a big mess and slower and useless dependencies with *dev* packages ) Made a LiveCD, it's a first test for the upcoming MCNLive. Maybe interesting for those who don't want to do a HD install at the moment. Special (unionfs makes all dir's writable): you can urpmi all applications, and add/install them to the CD/RAM, on the fly, the sources are preconfigured. Look here . Please check the readme.txt first. Edited April 2, 2005 by anna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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