Quoting Gerald Timothy Quimpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Mandrake 9 is out today too. it may take the main mirrors some > time to synchronize though. some of the mirrors i looked at > have the rc3, not the final.
I'm just pulling down the last of it, in time for my installfest on Saturday. Similar current offerings: SuSE 8.1 beta (sort of) ----------------------- Although you can't yet get SuSE beyond 7.0 free of charge in ISO form, it turns out that UnitedLinux beta3 is very strongly based on SuSE 8.1 betas, right down to using YaST2, KDE3, and GNOME2 -- presumably because SuSE engineers did most of the work. http://download.unitedlinux.com/cgi-bin/reg.pl Word seems to have gotten out; the ftp server is hammered. But this is basically getting a slightly sparse two-CD SuSE 8.1 prerelease for free. (Disc 3 is source code only.) However, less hammered is SCO Linux (formerly Caldera OpenLinux) 4.0 beta, which turns out to be exactly the same thing -- UnitedLinux beta3. http://www.sco.com/products/beta/ If you're getting SuSE the orthodox way, and don't want a boxed set: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/evaluation-7.0/evaluation-7.0.iso Single-CD download version, several revs behind the boxed sets. Complete distro, despite its filename. Lycoris beta ------------ For the adventuresome, there's a new Lycoris beta (build 51) ftp://ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.lycoris.com/beta/ Current release is still build 46. Libranet -------- Desktop-oriented distribution (i386-only) w/simple, friendly installer. Publisher is in Vancouver. Based on & compatible w/Debian 3.0. Available either in a boxed set of v. 2.7 with e-mail support and 2 CDs, or as (cheaper) download of the v. 2.7 ISOs, or as free downloadable ISO of v. 2.0's 1st CD. I recommend the latter: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/libranet/2.0/libranet-2.0-essential.is +o A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to grab the two-ISO 2.7 beta, which subsequently seems to have been pulled from the Net. Sorry, guys; you have to move quickly. ;-> Additions to Libranet 2.7's Debian 3.0 base: Installer (ncurses-type). Graphical administrative tools. RealPlayer & Flash, Netscape Communicator, Opera 6.0. Installs w/kernel 2.4.19. GNOME 2.0.1, KDE 3.0.3, XFree86 4.2. Improved hardware autodetection (incl. sound, USB, printers, Zip drives). (Libranet 2.0 has most of that, just older revs.) _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
