DragonMage Posted September 18, 2002 Report Share Posted September 18, 2002 From pclinuxonline It seems that Mandrake 9.0 RC3 is out. Last chance to squash some bugs before it goes final. Time to borrow my friend's cablemodem again it seems :) (Just want to test whether the Everything Linux topic is working or not :) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted September 18, 2002 Report Share Posted September 18, 2002 I think I will wait for the final release before putting any new iso images up on the download page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted September 18, 2002 Report Share Posted September 18, 2002 C'mon 9!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted September 18, 2002 Report Share Posted September 18, 2002 I'll have to wait till I'm back at Uni before I download any more ISOs. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 18, 2002 Report Share Posted September 18, 2002 So am I the only one that thinks that this will become the final version? I bet they'll just rename these ISOs... Heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncb Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 i think they should take longer before releasing new versions, because they're always filled with bugs and a new one comes out 1 month later making the other obsolete. So people who are on dialup like me and don't have the ability to download .iso images have to spend money somewhere cheapbytes, mandrake themselves, or wal mart or somewhere else and buy the software when its all buggedup then to have another one come out like i said one month later it just sucks and wastes our money. Thats why I currently have red hat 7.3 because i didn't want to spend any on 8.2 after i had just bought 8.1 and stuff like that even though Mandrake is still my fav distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 thats the nature of the beast though man. at least our OS is open source and when users find a prob they can find a fix. not like closed source you know who having to wait for service packs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 I just followed a link through to the download site and its still rc2, not rc3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 I don't think all mirrors have updated yet :-( I'm still waiting in queue :-( probably a long one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 quote ncb PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 12:22 am Post subject: i think they should take longer before releasing new versions, because they're always filled with bugs and a new one comes out 1 month later making the other obsolete. So people who are on dialup like me and don't have the ability to download .iso images have to spend money somewhere cheapbytes, mandrake themselves, or wal mart or somewhere else and buy the software when its all buggedup then to have another one come out like i said one month later it just sucks and wastes our money. Thats why I currently have red hat 7.3 because i didn't want to spend any on 8.2 after i had just bought 8.1 and stuff like that even though Mandrake is still my fav distro. /quote It comes out every 6 months, not every month, as was mentioned thats how it goes for a bleeding edge distro. I have been hanging out for 9 for about 3 months now really want that open office 1.0.1 integrated with kde3 and gnome 2. without having to go to the trouble of installing it all, as i want to install 9 on about 12 boxes. Mozilla 1.1 is good but i always use the newest semi stable moz which is currently 1.2a(very stable - very good btw for me anyway). but i just need to change that on the boxes that i use not the rest. I think all this betatesting is producing better mandrakes which is acceptable to me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 Doesn't matter because Mandrake said already that they plan to release once a year from now on. I'm sure that's what they said... This means more people will have to learn urpmi using external sources... Geez... Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted September 19, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 Either that or the return of MandrakeFreq. I think the freq disks are a godo idea since with marcello doing kernel 2.4, it seems that it will take months before a new stable kernel 2.4 version is out, so you don't need to upgrade the core things that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted September 19, 2002 Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 What did happen to Mandrake Freq? It just sort of disappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted September 19, 2002 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2002 http://new.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index....ANG_=en#GOTO_73 That's basically Freq in a new name :) Anyway, I think that since the mandrake releases so fast, (every 6 months), people just don't think for Freq if they want to keep their systems up to date, all they need is just get the newest ISO version of Mandrake instead. Now that Mandrake plans to slow down their releases to once a year, Freq could be a doable thing again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 20, 2002 Report Share Posted September 20, 2002 Might be my imagination, (except I do not have one) but I think that RC3 is compiling faster than RC2. And no errors as yet. I'll try some others that generated errors on RC2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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