Mandriva Linux 2006 Released 190
mhrivnak writes "Today, Mandriva Linux 2006 was released to Club members, and the tree will be publicly available on October 13. New features include the Kat Desktop Search Environment, an interactive firewall, and enhanced wifi support with Mandriva being the only Linux distribution certified for Centrino hardware. The integration of technology from Conectiva and Lycoris has led to improved installation (in 40+ languages), better package management, and quicker boot time."
Re:You mean released today, right? (Score:1, Interesting)
rsbac (Score:0, Interesting)
http://www.rsbac.org/ [rsbac.org]
Mandriva 2006 on Mini ITX? (Score:5, Interesting)
It took me a while to decide upon actually buying such a slow system, but I presume it will be fast enough for a job at hand, which is: "quietly sit in my living room, act as a web, DynDNS, login and file server for my local network, and do the multimedia stuff when needed (mp3, TV, DVDs and DivX).
The problem is that VIA doesn't really play nicely with Linux, and one had to do quite a lot of work on his own in the past before getting a reasonably well working system. Wonder how much work has been done in this direction (if any) by Mandriva folks since 2005LE?
Re:who comes up with this names? (Score:5, Interesting)
Naming Products Is No Game [businessweek.com]
Re:Mandriva 2006 on Mini ITX? (Score:5, Interesting)
More than other at least.
There are drivers that are released, some are even free and concern their graphic adapters.
I think this is part of one of their strategy which is to take a big part of the asian market where there is a demand for low cost low end solutions.
They are also very interrested in low energy solutions for the same reasons.
I kinda think they are wiser than some other who rely on selling high end more power hungry closed solutions in a world where oil price and therefore electricity prices are going to rise.
I go weekly there:
http://www.viaarena.com/ [viaarena.com]
to find infos about this very interresting company. They even have tutorials for installing their new drivers on Mandriva and Fedora over there.
Nope, I don't have shares or anything.
Re:Its too soon. (Score:4, Interesting)
Why are version numbers important? Do you check the version number of every single package you use, and always update it even if it is one point release behind?
Realise that a distribution has a release schedule, and usually that involves imposing a version freeze, to prevent new bugs creeping into an otherwise well-understood release (with it's known bugs that must still be fixed etc). Regressions have occured in Firefox releases
I think that major work should have been done on Heimdal Kerberos Support
So do I, but there are more important issues. And, since we don't build any packages against the heimdal libraries at present
Because better LDAP backend support for Kerberos is critical to doing thinngs like Linux's "Almost but not quite" Active Directory.
Well, part of that requires a stable, supported LDAP server, which was one of those more important issues. The OpenLDAP packages we ship are quite decent, and all packages were rebuilt against the new major version, plus we are committed to shipping updates as 2.3.x matures (although most users of 2.3.x seem to find it more stable than 2.2.x already).
Of course, real "Active Directory" features will come with samba4, which won't be available any time this year.
So, delaying the release for one aspect would not compare to the commercial comittments Mandriva has to shipping this release in time for stocking shelves ahead of the festive season.
But, the work in preparation for samba4 will continue, and as always [warwick.ac.uk], packages for older releases will be made available as well.
Re:Mandriva 2006 rocks (Score:2, Interesting)
What I really didn't like was Mandrake's logo all over the place, and the rpm installs. Dependencies were a real pain in the ass.
How's the package handling? I prefer downloading it from the net, as opposed to installing from the CDs (that is if they had what I needed on them).
Re:Mandriva 2006 rocks (Score:4, Interesting)
Dependencies are really not a problem with urpmi, as long as you stick to official mandrake/mandriva rpms. As soon as you go on pbone or get rpms from other distributions, problems will probably happen.
Usually if it's not in the mandrake main or contrib repositories (that's pretty rare) then the best option is to either search for a mandrake rpm, look for a .i386.rpm (one that isn't distribution specific) or failing that compiling from the tar file.
Mandriva isn't for everybody of course, if you've got debian working great then that's the way to go. I really like it because I just don't have to waste time (though debian is pretty awesome, if you know what you're doing).
One thing I'd like to see (Score:1, Interesting)
Either Debdrake or Portagedrake.
RPMs are bollocks - either that, or every RPM distro that I've used or seen had a package repository that was bollocks, which amounts to the same thing either way: bollocks. Anyway, back in the days when I was using Mandrake 8.2, one of the first things I learned was how to spell "make install".
Nice bootup times (Score:1, Interesting)
Have been using Mnadrake at home since their 9.1 release, running LE2005 now. They did have a buggy release in 10, but 2006 seems to have shaped up to be a good distro.....
I stick to centos in office. Why do people keep cribbing about the zillion linux distros? KDE feels great at home and gnome looks perfect for office..... and after having used both for few years, I can say they have come a long way.....
We have started to slowly roll out CentOS to other workstations here, and people who have began using prefer CentOS over WinXP. Only issue holding us back from a complete rollout is lack of Catia(CAD) for Linux
Even my bro has mostly stopped booting Win at home. Looking forward to Mandy 2006.... I think it'll be a distro that will allow me to recommend Linux to a lot of people
Re::Sighs: (Score:1, Interesting)
Go ahead, knock yourself out. But you haven't done that nor are you likely to do it anytime soon. The system you use today is dependent upon literally scores of tools that were developed by the GNU project.
As Stallman writes: "An inappropriate name gives people the wrong idea... if you call pens 'roses', people may not realize what they are good for. If you call our operating system 'Linux', that conveys a mistaken idea of the system's origin, history, and purpose. If you call it GNU/Linux, that conveys (though not in detail) an accurate idea. But does this matter for our community? Is it important whether people know the system's origin, history, and purpose? Yes -- because people who forget history are often condemned to repeat it. The Free World which has developed around GNU/Linux is not secure; the problems that led us to develop GNU are not completely eradicated, and they threaten to come back."
I, personally, use the name GNU/Linux because it acknowledges the huge contribution to the system that the GNU project makes and it reminds people that the purpose of the system is to ensure software freedom. If you run your own, non-GNU tools and you compile against a non-GNU compiler, have at 'er. But don't try to make us believe, even for a moment, that that's what you've done.
You, on the other hand, seem not to feel it important to acknowledge the work of others nor do you value the acknowledgement of the cause of freedom. Be that as it may. But even you would admit, I imagine, that if we stuck to using the term 'Linux' for the kernel, which is what it is, and GNU/Linux for the kernel with all the GNU tools that make it work, it's a much more meaning-laden and more accurate description.
Apparently, accuracy also is not important to you. It is to me. Hence, I will continue to use the term GNU/Linux and I will continue to advocate that others use it. Don't do likewise, if you don't want to. It's your choice.
Telling me that you're right and Stallman is wrong or telling me that I'm confused and that you're a beacon of clarity just makes you look foolish.
It truly is possible to have disagreements about philosophical matters, you know, without anyone being confused or wrong.
Install went fine (Score:3, Interesting)
I added the plf and contrib as urpmi sources, and installed the pre-copiled ivtv and myth* rpms. Also seems to work OK, but m still missing the fb device associated with PVR350. Now I'm stuck on trying to get a frequencies list for Austria.
In the meantime I tried recompiling the kernel, which just proved what we already know: this machine shouldn't be used for CPU intensive tasks.
BTW, the machine needs ca. 40W, and runs withouth any fans. Its getting somewhat warm, but seems to be stable for now. Let's see hw long will it survive.