DistroWatch reports that the Mandrake beta announcements seem to come on Mondays only, but the beta 3 ISO images are already up for grabs: MandrakeLinux-9.0beta3-CD1.i586.iso (702MB), MandrakeLinux-9.0beta3-CD2.i586.iso (699MB) and MandrakeLinux-9.0beta3-CD3.i586.iso (412MB). Update: Announcement has arrived in our mailboxes and it is also live on the Mandrake site.
Mandrake 9.0 Beta 3 Released
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Wont a 702meg ISO cause a problem with people who cant overburn? Or is it one of those 702000kb where its not really 702Mb, but moreso a like 680Mb?
I sometimes even had isos from about 800 mb that I was able to burn correctly a 700 mb cd. Isos are often larger on hd then when burned to a cd. I don’t know why that is.
Does anyone know when Mandrake 9.0 final will be released?
End of September, I hear.
I finished downloading and tried to burn it before this was posted. I can fit a 700 meg image on a cd if I finalize it after burning, but the extra couple megs were enough to make the process fail w/ Nero and my 700 meg Memorex disks. I’m currently trying again at a lower write speed.
The CD1’s size is exactly 735,805,440 bytes, which is 718,560 kilobytes or almost 702 megabytes.
The problem is most probably your burner itself, some actually WILL NOT burn more than what the CD says it can take (luckily none of mine have this problem (most i’ve done is 750megs)).
… but at 8x and it worked
And I also killed nero’s power burn
I guess size *does* matter!
Z_God, this is because of so called subchannel information stored seperately in an ISO image. Or at least I believe this to be the reason. You, feel free to enlighten us!
Here is a beta 3 screenshot on my system with nothing else open
http://users.adelphia.net/~geek/b3kde.png
Is that the default look? as i really like how the kicker isn’t cluttered with all the default crap that is in there.
that’s the default icon pack, but when i tried the betas it came with more in the kicker. it doesn’t take long to clean it up anyways.
i wish the ISOs were smaller, i download and install later as i go along.
I was able to successfully burn the 9.0 beta 1 images with no problem on a 700MB with NTI. I have not tried beta 2 or 3 though.
The 1024*1024=1M makes the filesize appear larger than it really is.
Hey Jim, do you have that wallpaper lying around anywhere? It looks pretty sweet.
I don’t think that screenshot is from mdk9 neither kde3. The icons look oldfashioned. maybe kde1.x
Jim: Here is a beta 3 screenshot on my system with nothing else open
http://users.adelphia.net/~geek/b3kde.png
Could you be so kind to email that really really cool background to me…. or at least give me an URL? It looks so cool.
I don’t think that screenshot is from mdk9 neither kde3. The icons look oldfashioned. maybe kde1.x
It looks like KDE 2. KDE 3.0.x is almost identical to KDE 2. Looks old fashion, but a really good default theme (compared with other stuff available on KDE).
Besides, why don’t Mandrake use GCC 3.2 now. Because this is still a beta, breaking binary compatiblity in C++ apps should be done now, not later.
Looking at the changelog, it seems they ARE using GCC 3.2.
That is not the default kicker, but it only took a couple minutes to clean it up.You can’t really see the theme (style) used without anything open, but it’s Light style 3rd revision. The wallpaper came with the beta, I uploaded it here.
http://users.adelphia.net/~geek/only_k.jpg
The beta itself uses quite a bit less ram on boot than the last one, the other major difference I noticed was that the installer takes quite a bit less time. I think previous versions of drakx took about 25 minutes or so for a full install vs 10 for this last beta. It took about 15 minutes from the time I shut down windows to the time I installed, made the changes, and posted the previous screenshot. Mandrake has always been good about detectig my windows partition so I don’t have to manually add it to lilo.conf
check http://www.kde-look.org... you’ll find the image there, i have the same one, it’s a dope one.
Must try the beta tommorow.
i noticed the install took a bit longer, but it was expected. the typical install i choose on 9.0b2 was ~1200mb. that’s about 500mb more than the same packages on 8.2. mostly the same packages, i did browse about to check.
so the boot process may have been shortened as well? tis something that really turns me off about mdk, or linux in general. i’ll may pick a RC release. i have the bandwidth, the hardware, but lack the desire
hmm “a RC” or “an RC”…. depends on how it’s read…
weird language.