New betas of Mandrake and Red Hat released

[CougTek]

For those interested, two of the most important players of the Linux world have released new betas this week. Red Hat 9.0.93 (Severn) can be downloaded from here, while Mandrake 9.2 beta 1 is available there.

Servers are very busy for both (especially Mandrake's), so expect delays while trying to download the ISOs.

I have successfully downloaded both, but I haven't tried any since I removed my sole burner from my main box, waiting to be installed in my future main rig early next week.

 

[blakerwry]

I tried knoppix on a fe machines in the last week or so.. works great every time.

1) pIII 650 on 440BX chipset, linskys NIC, onboard Ensoniq/creative sound, USB smart media reader... matrox g400..everything worked! ..few slowdowns during boot...

2) pentium4-M Laptop, radeon gfx, wifi card, sound... everything worked except battery life meter. That was impressive.

3)Celeron 466 on i810 w/ onboard sound and either onboard or commodity NIC. Worked perfectly.

I'm surprised at how well everything works right out of the box. It's cool to be able to run things like The GIMP or Apache from a CD installation of Linux.

I am going to wait till mandrake/redhat has created a new final version before messing with anything. I've been wanting to test out redhat's latest offerings anyway. This gives me an excuse.

 

[CityK]

Mandrake v9.2 beta 2 now released

 

[blakerwry]

just a month or so now and we'll have a final.

 

[CougTek]

Gentoo 1.4 final was released yesterday too.

 

[Buck]

I received the Under the Brim email from RedHat and they had a small advertisment for Linuxworld. The included a link of their booth layout.

 

[blakerwry]

why am I using Windows again?

Full size pics available here.


*I thought throwing in winfile would be a nice touch.

 

[blakerwry]

yes, this is the famed knoppix that Coug has pushed so hard.

so i didn't even have to install linux to get this working... just pop a CD in the drive.. turn on the computer, mount the HDD as read/write(mount /dev/hda1) and navigate to my adobe/ms word/whatever installation directory and run the .exe files with Wine.

For wine i simply told it to use win98 (over win95) emulation and left the rest as defaults. photoshop(photoshop said i could use a bigger swap.. 2GB!) and word openned and worked flawlessly

 

[blakerwry]

http://movix.sourceforge.net/


interesting tool... another live linux on CD distro.

 

[CougTek]

yes, this is the famed knoppix that Coug has pushed so hard.

I pushed what? Me think you are mistaken me for someone else. Never tried Knoppix myself. Hard to push when never tried. Next things I'll push will probably be Amiga OS or Mac OS-X, both of which I have never tried.

 

[blakerwry]

 

[Mercutio]

honold pushed it quite a bit. I've used it a few times as well. Knoppix is a really slick product.

SuSE 8.2 is fairly impressive as well.

 

[blakerwry]

looknig back, it was howell that I remember specifically recomending it here for troubleshooting.. i think newton also mentioned it, as did someone else... on this board atleast...

 

[Howell]

looknig back, it was howell that I remember specifically recomending it here for troubleshooting.. i think newton also mentioned it, as did someone else... on this board atleast...

Must have been one of my theoretical flashes of brilliance or maybe a flash of theoretical brilliance as I've never downloaded Knoppix. Sounds like you found a winner though.

 

[blakerwry]

is anybody else impressed with the ability to run photoshop and office in linux?

what other applications do you require that are windows only? (i haven't used IE for months accept for testing)

 

[Buck]

I just downloaded and am now running Open Office 1.1RC2. I like, I like!

 

[Will Rickards WT]

Impressed.... as a developer... quite.... as a user not really.

 

[SteveC]

what other applications do you require that are windows only? (i haven't used IE for months accept for testing)

VirtualDub, TMPGEnc, ATI's MMC, Flight Sim 2004.

 

[blakerwry]

huh, i was thinking Vdub was linux as well as windows... guess it's just open source win32 only....

I can do without ATi's MMC mainly because i get shit on by ATi because I have a TV wonder and not an All-in-wonder card.

I don't mess wiht .mpg files anymore and haven't used tmpeg in over a year.. I could do without... never played flight simulator 2004.. last time i played flight simulator was when it ran in either DOS or win3.1