You can now download the latest Mandrake 9 RC-2. Reportedly, it includes XFree 4.2.1 and Koffice 1.2.
Mandrake Linux 9.0 RC-2 Available
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Could you please wait until most of the mirrors are updated before announcing this ? Otherwise it’s always the same places that get saturated.
And how would I know if this is not on _all_ FTP servers? It worked for me.
Each time we post something, we do not check 40 mirrors to check if everything is ok. That would be overkill. I saw the news posted elsewhere too.
Then you’d most likely complain this news is old. you do have
a point, but it’s kinda lose lose either way.:)
have a nice day
Will,
Loom, you’re acting like OSNews is going to bring about some kind of mock Slashdot Effect.
Well, at least not today. Weekends are always slow on traffic for every tech site.
We expect to serve about 43,000 pages today. Tomorrow we are expecting to serve between 60 and 70,000, sometimes even more.
Slashdot – I think – serves more than a 1.2 million pages on weekdays (but less on weekends). TheRegister is about at 800,000 pages per day.
OSNews is almost as big as NewsForge, FlipCode and LinuxToday these days. We are already way bigger than MacSlash, OSOpinion and many more.
The difference with all these sites is that OSNews got where it is today in 1 year, growing and continues to grow very fast, while these sites are building their traffic through 3-4 years.
I used to go to Macslash, I never went back after coming here. Slashdot was getting to political for me so I stopped going there also. So I guess you are stuck with me for a while. LOL
Great job, Eugenia. Keep up the good work.
I’m glad to see that you didn’t take what I said the wrong way.
While we’re on the topic of how popular OSNews is compared to related sites, OSNews has my congratulations as well for getting the hits it does.
“Weekends are always slow on traffic for every tech site.”
I get the same phenomenon with a community website about love poetry. I always wondered if this was specific to our visitors but it seems that it’s just typical for the internet (weird though). Our visitors are almost all german and, around 60% female and mostly around 20-30 years old. Definetly no techies. Traffic at weekends is cut to at least 25%.
No, it is normal. A _lot_ of people are browsing from school and work. At weekend, the whole internet traffic (and especially tech sites) have 30-40% less traffic than in any weekday. For us, Monday-Wednesday are the “big” days traffic-wise.
have anyone tested the RC1 yet? well, another download …
I heard about a survey recently done that found that the amount of time the average person browsed the Internet from work in one week equals one work day! Is this correct?
OSNews is almost as big as NewsForge, FlipCode and LinuxToday these days. We are already way bigger than MacSlash, OSOpinion and many more.
I use to go to OSOpinion. They accept anything but DIFFERENT OPINIONS. Funny, hehe. (when I was a Linux zealot, they mind me. when i started rationalizing…. they banned me).
Besides, KOffice 1.2 isn’t released yet.
I heard the same. We have 2 more writters that used to write for OSOpinion, and they stopped sending them articles, as they didn’t seem to want to publish articles that happen to not be against Ms, or to be against Apple.
Hello all:
RC1 has many errors and bugs in Mozilla, Konqueror, Login, and lots of crashing! Just get RC2 instead maybe it’s better
PRAX
Wake me when they actually release the distro.
Indeed, I used to go to OsOpinion before, but OsOpinion has much more in-depth articles. And it’s more like a community. I ‘discovered’ OsNews after posts on NewsForge about some items here and I love this site. It gets frequent updates on interesting OS’es. Whether one’s using Windows, Linux, Apple or something else.
Eugenia: I heard the same. We have 2 more writters that used to write for OSOpinion, and they stopped sending them articles, as they didn’t seem to want to publish articles that happen to not be against Ms, or to be against Apple.
Which is exactly my point. Kelly, the owner of the site, called me a troll because I have said Darwin is practically unusable on x86 citing lack of drivers. I also said Darwin had nothing against Linux on x86.
And I got a ban warning. Wow.
Besides, now the place have much less articles. The rare articles are either written in house at NewsFactor or written by someone who probably an relative of Scott McNeil. Forum participation is totally *low*.
Back on topic, I can’t find a mirror that is fast. Combining a few mirrors using GetRight only made it 20kbps. Anyone got a secret fast server?
You may have tried it already, but I always have good luck with ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/ I generally average 160-200K when I sync with Cooker …
RC1 is a huge improvement over 8.2, IMO … have not tried RC2 yet. But in general, 9.0 looks like a nice distro. If not for Gentoo, it would probably be my distro of choice.
I just checked that mirror I gave … the Mandrake-iso directory doesn’t seem to have RC2 yet. I never get the ISOs anyway, just rsync the Cooker itself … anyway, assuming the ISOs show up there soon (which they should) it IS a fast mirror. =)