Mandrake Linux 9.0 Release Schedule

**Germ** · August 20th, 2002, 08:24 PM

From pclinuxonline.com:

Warly of MandrakeSoft has posted a revised release schedule for Mandrake Linux 9.0.

Cooker is entered in its first frozen state.

That means that new versions of packages will not be accepted, except if they correct release critical bugs.

New releases are allowed, though.

Expect a beta 4 or rc 1 by the end of this week or beginning of next week, then a new rc in the beginning of september.

Deep freeze (not more upload, only very critical bugs), after that.

Final arround the 13th.

All this may change a little bit.

-- Warly

Germ

**capybara** · August 20th, 2002, 08:29 PM

yes! i love drake, i havent seen the betas yet, but there must be
a big improvement or changes for them to jump from
8.2 all the way up to 9.0 .....im still using 8.1, its gonna take
a big improvement for me to make the upgrade.

**e980238** · August 20th, 2002, 08:45 PM

yeh it must be a big improvement...
just like slackware's jump from 4 to 7 and netscape's jump from 4 to 6

**Scott Tiger** · August 20th, 2002, 09:19 PM

Ahhh.. That explains things. So Slackware jumped from 4 to 7. I was kinda wondering about that.

Got a book at B&N last week that had a free copy of Slack 3.5 but it was published in 99. Kinda wondered why wow Patrick V made so many releases in such a short time!

I don't use Drake but it seems to have allot of community associated with it. What would open source be without that?

**crouse** · August 20th, 2002, 09:25 PM

Mandrake releases in cycles........

7.0 /7.1/7.2
8.0/8.1/8.2
9.0/

Read that on my mandrake email list sometime back. Released in 3 steps then up to the next biggest number.

Linux Mandrake Names and Release Dates

Version Number | Name | Release Date

5.1 Venice 1998--07/23
5.2 LeeLoo 1998--12/01
5.3 Festen 1999--02/11
6.0 Venus 1999--05/27
6.1 Helios 1999--09/14 (6.2 missing ???)
7.0 Air 2000--01/14
7.1 Helium 2000--06/13
7.2 Ulysses 2000--10/30
8.0 Traktopel 2001--04/20
8.1 Vitamin 2001--09/27
8.2 Bluebird 2002--03/18

9.0 beta1 2002--07/22
9.0 beta2 2002--08/02

**Redwolf** · August 20th, 2002, 09:25 PM

Heh

Can't wait till Christmas!

**Xeroid** · August 20th, 2002, 10:09 PM

I'm ready to burn some ISO's now!

Mike

**Sixpac_XP** · August 20th, 2002, 10:43 PM

Originally posted by Scott Tiger
Ahhh.. That explains things. So Slackware jumped from 4 to 7. I was kinda wondering about that.

Got a book at B&N last week that had a free copy of Slack 3.5 but it was published in 99. Kinda wondered why wow Patrick V made so many releases in such a short time!

I don't use Drake but it seems to have allot of community associated with it. What would open source be without that?

psst (so they can sell more books) don't tell anyone

**linux_guru** · August 20th, 2002, 11:13 PM

mmmmmm Drake 9. Drool ...............

**storm2k** · August 20th, 2002, 11:19 PM

what's some of the major improvements in it that is e3ncouraging them to go up a full version number?

**lost-and-found** · August 20th, 2002, 11:40 PM

wow, can't wait until it's released. Hope that it doesn't have as many bugs as 8.1

**SpiffGQ** · August 21st, 2002, 01:32 AM

Originally posted by storm2k
what's some of the major improvements in it that is e3ncouraging them to go up a full version number?

Basically, its a re-write of the major drake utility and maintenance tools. They rewrote them in perl.

**crouse** · August 21st, 2002, 01:45 AM

Also 9.0 will have:KDE3.0.2

more here........

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/changelog/beta3.txt <<Complete changelog........

**CMonster** · August 21st, 2002, 03:55 AM

I think I'll wait for 9.2 this time around -I haven't even finished migrating a couple 8.1 boxes to 8.2 yet

**vass0922** · August 21st, 2002, 04:19 AM

Did they go with gcc 3.x?
I'd assume so considering the major version release...
(yes I realize its also part of their pattern, but I would think they would want to put in major upgrades into a major version release too

)

**lynchmob** · August 21st, 2002, 05:09 AM

Thanks for the notice,germ

I havent used MDK since 8.1-been using SuSE everyday-wise,Red Hat to fool around and practice for Linux+( 7.3 is the longest any ver of thier distro has been on one of my comps)

lynch

**Germ** · August 21st, 2002, 07:31 AM

vass, gcc 3.1.1

storm2k , here's a link to the new tools and apps:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3

Germ

**storm2k** · August 21st, 2002, 12:26 PM

with all the major drak tools being rewritten in perl, does it mean you'll be accessing most of them via a web interface, like you do with say webmin?

my drake experiences have been shaky at best, so i'm kinda leery about leaving the redhat world behind...

**capybara** · August 23rd, 2002, 09:27 PM

storm2k: im surprised you have trouble with drake, ive found
it easy to use than RH, but all in all, unless u have usually hardware (like a laptap, infrared ports, wireless home network)
theres no huge difference between rh and drake.