http://lwn.net/Articles/26657/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Mandrake Linux 9.1 released". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/27007/rss 2003-03-27T14:42:22+00:00 Duncan As a cooker tester and cooker list subscriber, I can say it's 2.4.21preX, of course <br>with the latest security patch, and a number of other Mandrake customized <br>patches, compared to Marcello's mainline kernel prepatches. <br> <br>(That said, I personally don't run the Mdk kernel, but get the kernel.org sources <br>and compile my own, so I can't say I follow more than the general overview of the <br>cooker list kernel related threads, nor can I report how well their kernel works. I <br>keep everything else regularly updated, however, generally twice a week or more <br>often, using urpmi, their automated packaging tool.) http://lwn.net/Articles/26836/rss 2003-03-26T20:08:57+00:00 xorbe Well, except that 50 flavors of the kernel has been the<br>norm for a long time... and 50 flavors of the kernel<br>combined have less bugs than one gcc release. ;-)<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/26771/rss 2003-03-26T14:44:49+00:00 eyal Downloading as suggested with BitTorrent seems to be faster than &quot;normal&quot; download (even with a segmenting download manager), and the concept is great. <p>However the speed, at least for me, didn't start at 20kB/s and went up. Instead it started around 10, then dropped to 2-5, and from then on it's constantly chaging anywhere from 2 to 30.<p>I'm not sure if this temporary or normal, and as I said it's faster than downloading from the overloaded servers, however adjust your expectations to more realistic figures.<p>EZ. http://lwn.net/Articles/26746/rss 2003-03-26T13:05:20+00:00 Peter <blockquote>Interesting that it's based on "kernel 2.4.21"... do they know something we don't?</blockquote> <p>Heh - no doubt that really means "2.4.20 + ptrace". But yeah, it does make you think of gcc 2.96, doesn't it?</p> http://lwn.net/Articles/26714/rss 2003-03-26T10:55:48+00:00 allesfresser Interesting that it's based on &quot;kernel 2.4.21&quot;... do they know something we don't? http://lwn.net/Articles/26711/rss 2003-03-26T05:40:21+00:00 raph If you want the Mandrake 9.1 ISOs: <p> <ul> <li>Download and install <a href="http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/">BitTorrent</a> <li>Start this <a href="http://www.levien.com/mandrake9.1.torrent">torrent</a> </ul> <p> Joining the torrent is especially appreciated if you have good bandwidth and are not behind a NAT. In the early phases of the torrent, downloads will be a little slow (20kB/s), but it should pick up in a couple of hours. If you can leave your BitTorrent application open even after the download is complete, that would help even more. <p> Feel free to spread the word; the more people who join the torrent, the better it goes. <p> This can be seen as a trial run for the RedHat 9 ISO release.