[Cialug] MDK 10.1 review

[David Champion]

Installing from the DVD iso is nice... no more swapping between CD's. If 
you install the PowerPack edition from CD's, that's 5 CD's.

I love Mandrake's "urpmi" tool for updating, but it's kind of a pain to 
keep your update source valid - for instance if you're still running 9.2 
(now 2 versions old, but still supported with official updates) several 
of the mirrors have dropped it, so you have to find a new mirror and 
update your sources.

What would be sweet would be something like urpmi (or apt-get on Debian) 
that uses a Bittorrent model - so there's always just one "tracker" for 
the updates, but many mirrors can also feed the downloads.

If I'm not mistaken... doesn't Debian just keep a list of mirror 
servers, and just goes down the list until it can connect to one of 
them? I noticed last time I updated my old Debian Woody system that it 
seemed to be hunting for servers for a long time.

-dc

Alan Maupin wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed from the DVD ISO for mandrake 10.1  
> 
> Very clean ... have yet to find a dead link on the KDE desktop.  
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf Of
> Anthony Jeffries
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] MDK 10.1 review
> 
> On Tue, November 23, 2004 11:26, David Champion said:
> 
>>Here's a very thourough review of Mandrake 10.1. The reviewer installed
>>it on several systems, including updates from a previous version, a mix
>>of desktop & laptops, nvidia and ati video cards and such.
>>
>>http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/review101.html
> 
> 
> I'm gonna play with this at work this week...I'll let y'all know how it
> works out.
>