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linux-hardcore.com-Well, i’m not going to use the ususal distro-test format for this one, as I fancied a bit of a write up instead of the usual points from 1-5.

I have a spare partition so this time I wanted to go for smething i haven’t tried in a long while. I popped over to Distrowatch and saw that Mandriva was out.

Why test Mandriva?
Mandrake was one of the first Linux Distros I used and has always had my respect for it’s hardware recognition and robustness. Even though back then, rpm distros were notorious for giving you a taste of “dependency hell”, one of the reason why I previously went for Debian-based Ubuntu (Hoary to Dapper) and then later Debian itself.  Read  the full article

Mandriva released the first beta of Mandriva Linux 2009.0: “Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 ‘thornicrofti’. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final (with initial implementation of the Mandriva Ia Ora theme, although this is not….
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Paris, 21st July 2008- Mandriva and Precedent Technologies (”PTech”), announce a new partnership, working together on the release in September in the United States of a new low-cost desktop, with Intel Atom CPUs and Mandriva Linux preinstalled on these machines.

Since signing their agreement, Mandriva, the leading European editor of Linux distributions, and Precedent Technologies, full service I.T solution provider, have been working together on a new low-cost PC called: TechSurfer.

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Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2, marking the first public pre-release of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2009. This alpha introduces several significant changes, most obviously the inclusion of KDE 4 - 4.1 beta 2, specifically - as the default version of KDE, and the latest development version of GNOME, 2.23.4. The kernel has also been updated to release 2.6.26rc7. We emphasize that the KDE change is a major one that is not yet entirely completed and likely to cause many bugs. As always - but more importantly than ever - we remind you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, we strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Read more

Download:

mandriva-linux…dvd-i586.iso (3,918MB, MD5), mandriva-linux…dvd-x86_64.iso (3,915MB, MD5), mandriva…KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso (652MB, MD5), mandriva…GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso (555MB, MD5).

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Package management News: openSUSE defends KDE 4, Mandriva cancels alpha release, Debian completes Lenny’s security support, Ubuntu unveils MID edition, Zenwalk’s J.-P. Guillemin, Acer Aspire One, Linux rescue CDs Released last week: CentOS 5.2, Pardus Linux 2008, Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 Upcoming releases:….
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