Mandrake 7.2 is officially out

[Celstar]

Darn, I just downloaded and burned 7.1 just a couple weeks ago... here we go again.

 

[Shuxclams]

Where? nothing mentioned at mandrake....?


SHUX

 

[urbantechie]

Hmm, still says 7.1 at the website.

 

[Celstar]

I read it on http://www.linuxnewbie.org

Oooops...

Mandrake 7.2 --Update
Posted Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 12:19 PM by: Sensei | Submit Your News
Veloct writes, "Mandrake Linux 7.2 with KDE2 included plus many more additions is out on the main ftp and a few mirrors. It was released earlier this morning. It will ship from Cheapbytes by midweek and should be in retails stores mid-November."

Updated: It looks as if the version of Mandrake as not been officially announced and LNO sorta jumped the gun by posting this. With that said, enjoy 7.2 . -Sensei

thanks to 1pcwarren for direct linkage:
http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/

 

[SUOrangeman]

Anyone find a faster mirror, I'm trying to pulling the ISOs off of a server here in Virginia. Slow as moles asses.

-SUO

 

[gmbrker]

Anyone get it up and running. Been trying to install it for two days now. Always get and error when it is trying to install bash, and I get ldconfig errors and also some rpm errors too. Hope it's just a bad burn. From the Mandrake website, it looks a lot better than redhat 7. Wish Mandrake was as easy to install as Redhat.

 

[TheAndyPandy]

hi i had it downloaded the other day and now i am not sure how to break it up i see how big it is 1.18gigs where do i break it up to put on CDs

 

[Praetor]

I found the fastest mirror to get 7.2. Go to Wal-Mart.

No joke, my local store just got it in today. Unless Linux Mandrake 7.2 means something else in another language.... $24.95 + tax.

 

[SUOrangeman]

7.2 at WalMart? R U SURE? It just went GOLD over the weekend. I find it VERY hard to believe that CDs have been pressed and found their way to WalMart.

Did they come directly from Mandrake with docs?

-SUO

 

[Praetor]

Err, yes, I'm quite sure. I'll even go in and take a picture of it with my cheesy digital camera just to prove my point.

Oh, still don't believe me? Check out Slashdot, they've got a link proving me right.

 

[coutch]

DO NOT BUY THE WAL_MART BOX !!!

the 7.2 version in the box is actually a BETA !!

This from Slashdot

I've installed it, and have had a lot of problems ... cd-writer not working, ethernet not working correctly, installation would stall unless I switched console every ~5 minutes and do a ls -l ....

if you ask me, it wasn't ready for prime time quite yet !

--Coutch

 

[SUOrangeman]

Good work, coutch. I knew something had to be up.

Maybe a good opportunity to try Mandrake's software update tool. I have the 7.2 release and several "developmental" updates are showing up.

-SUO