Mandrake 8.0 Beta wonderful!

[littleprince]

Well, not all my testing is done, in fact i've only just installed it 5 mins ago! but it was much easier to install than 7.2 ... DIdn't enter one single command line! not for my ata 100 controller or anything! radeon works great! running using the x86 4.02 with hardware support...
the new auror may take some time to get used to, but its nice... overall, graphics just like cleaner... althought kde did take noticibly longer to load...
performance once loaded however was linux as usual!

setup was PIECE OF CAKE!@
and i believe thats the most important thing for linux!

 

[sitka]

Of all the ones I've tried Mandrake was definitely the smoothest. Now you tell me it's even better. These guys are on the ball.

 

[DarkManX]

Does it have the new 2.4 Kernal?

 

[DarkManX]

theres 4 here which one(s) do I download?

 

[IamDavid]

1-8.0-Traktopel-beta1-i586.iso
2-8.0-Traktopel-beta1-i586.iso

 

[littleprince]

2.4 kernel!
SORRY GUYS!

*READ THIS!*
I installed last night at 5am, way to tired to notice anything...
8.0 installed something called port sentry... firewall of some sort i assume... well, this morning, i noticed that my dnet client sucked last night! 389kkeys/sec... i normaly get about 3.53M keys/sec on this machine... i noticed port sentry was taking about 30-35% cpu power, and there was a load of other stuff taking up power too...
so i went to try and configure the startup services, which froze my machine... so i had to hit reset.
on boot up, i was stuck in aurora... where it was suppose to say filesystem error, checking errors blahblah.. except i left it for 15 mins... and i don't think it should've taken that long... so another few minutes, try to reboot again, no go. reinstalled.
port sentry gone, but still got other stuff.
man, i hope these programs aren't gonna hog so much cpu power in the release version, or else this feels like windows bloat ware to me.

gotta go figure out what the heck these things are, and why my dnet client cant get more than 50% cpu power!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[littleprince]

Ok, seriously, hardware config was the easiest thing in the world.
but software is pissing me off this time.
i've gotten rid of some of the junk
and dnetc just finished the last wu at 3.19 Mkeys/s nearly up to my normal keyrate. but man... the potential, when i run the benchmark, i get 3.63 Mkeys/sec thats .1 higher than i've ever done... is the potential there?
why would the benchmark return a number thats way off from reality?
coz i remember i did benchmark it last night b4 i went to sleep.

o well.

a couple peaves i have with 8.0 though.

licq: used to be able to type a msg, hit tab, and enter.. doesn't seem to work now?

the dang kde desktop start menu thing... if you use a single click to expand it, and you do it too high, stupid thing'll ask u if u wanna logout! hard to explain, and i noe why it does it, just try it, u'll see what i mean!

stilltesting... keep you guys updated!

 

[perry]

If it's the Port Sentry I'm thinking of, the it protects you from port scans. Pretty cool little program, actually. Run nmap on the box running Port Sentry and you'll get back all sorts of funky results. Turn Port Sentry off, and you get the 'real' ports that are open. I'm not sure what else it can be used for, I only messed around with it for a few minutes, but its a nice little program. I didn't notice it taking up a lot of CPU time -- I intentionally checked on it.

Depending on how big your drive is, 15 minutes is a reasonable amount of time for running fsck. That's probably what you were seeing. Linux absolutely hates to be rebooted without unmounting the file systems. It'll moan and groan the blues when you start back up.

 

[littleprince]

well, the thing is, i've waited for it to the checkdis a few times in 7.2 never seemed more than 20 mins, i'd say 5 mins max...
its only a 6 gig hard drive.....

i thought mandrake had there own built in firewall? anyways, i'm pretty sure it was port sentry...

i'm back up to 3.48Mkeys/sec now...
sounds about right, since i was using licq, and playing around a bit...

i really really love the radeon support, i can have the display settings i want now, and energy saving power down! woohoo!

gonna start testing the usb support tonight...

 

[MGMorden]

Wha 'cha need to do is install using ReiserFS . Don't know how to do it w/ Mandrake, but it rules. Literally 5 second fsck's.

 

[wildhagen]

Does 8.0 support the Promise Fasttrak100 out-of-the-box? And the Promise ATA100-controller as integrated at the Asus A7V?