This is a new development release of Mandrakelinux 10.1 for PowerPCs: “Three 700MB images this time, so a few more packages included. New in RC1: mostly in sync with 10.1/x86; airport support enabled; ghostscript and libpng problems should be fixed; several other packages like apache and php modules updated; OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 final.
Development Release: Mandrakelinux 10.1 RC1 (PPC)
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Is great the PPC port is advancing, but I´m tired on waiting for Mandrake 10.1 Official. They are already one month behind the anounced realese date. Why is mandrake puting time and energy in another port when they can realese their main distro on time.
I am also wondering when 10.1 Official will be released. Apparently it is already sent to production but there are no directories (apart from a 10.1 update directory) on the ftp servers yet.
So anybody knows what is going on?
It is pretty interesting to see that some distributions are still putting in the effort to publish a PPC port. I don’t say that there are no PPC-Ports anymore, but I have the feeling that the number of releases has gone down the last time…
Let’s hope for the best of the possible consequences 😉
mandrakus – by and large, it’s not the same people working on the PPC edition as work on the x86 edition. Stopping work on one wouldn’t speed the other up. I think Cooker now is probably identical to 10.1 OE, so if you want 10.1 OE, update to Cooker.
maradong – MDK releases a PPC version with every second release of the x86 version, that’s been the policy for a while now.
it have hfs+ suport ?
Airport support built in!! How cool is that? I only have a 40GB HDD in my iBook, im not sure how willing I am to give up 5GB or so to try out Mandrake on it considering how happy I am with Mac OS X :/ I have Mandrake on my AMD64 desktop anyway, but it’s cool to try out Linux on different architectures
If it supports my airport card, then well… it’s very tempting.
I’ve just read on this page http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2508
that 10.1 will be released in November. I’m really wondering why it’s taking them so long…
Note only Airport, NONE of the distros will have Airport Extreme support because Broadcom refuses to publish specs for it. So if you want that bug them, not the distro/kernel guys.
As for PPC I myself use Debian on it. It’s ppc branch is always in sync with x86 (requirement for packages going into sid) and all the other arches, so if you plan on using linux for longer on PPC without often reinstalls you might want to concider that. I’ve not tested the new sarge installer but I doubt it can match the ease of mandrake, but then you have “install once, run forever”.
and if they release to early then people will complain that it was to early and that they should of spent more time on it. They are screwed either way.