On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:06, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I have Mandrake 10 working on my computer and I have to say that I am > quite satisfied with it. So, I would like to know why should one move > to Mandrake 10.1. What are Mandrake 10.1's advantages compared to his > older brother - Mandrake 10? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > PS: I am GMail user; please, be sure that you are replying to the list.
While 10.1 has worked perfectly for me, it should be remembered that there are some significant changes in 10.1 like udev instead of devfs which may not work well on your particular hardware. Having said that here is a short list of features in 10.1 I quite like. Nothing radical. 1/ Magicdev instead of supermount for CD media. Inserting a data CD will automatically mount it, and inserting an audio CD will automatically start the CD player. 2/ Amarok1.1 as an audio player. Amarok is a really nice audio player if a bit CPU intensive. (I believe Greg Meyer has packaged Amarok 1.2beta for 10.0 and 10.1 if you want to try it) 3/ Wireless support is better. ndiswrapper works with most 802.11g adapters, and Intel Centrino wireless is now supported. (Once you have worked out how to install the proprietary firmware) As usual some new bugs have crept in. Attachments in Kmail are currently broken, and so is 'fish' in konqueror. If you are satisfied with 10.0, then there is no pressing need to upgrade, but then you would not be using Linux if you did not like to 'fiddle'. :-) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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