Mandriva 2007 Released 173
moyoto writes, "Mandriva has announced today the immediate availability of Mandriva Linux 2007. This new version includes the latest Gnome 2.16 and KDE 3.5.4, as well as a 3D desktop with both AIGLX and Xgl technologies. You can download Mandriva 2007 in one of the several free versions available with bittorrent, or buy one of the commercial packs. You can easily test the new 3D Desktop with one of the 16 Live/Install CDs, Gnome- or KDE-based, available in more than 70 different languages." The distro features a new theme named Ia Ora ("hello" in French Polynesian).
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With Mandriva it's probably easier to list what it doesn't include.
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Ubuntu has the right idea on this. The install media is a single CD that contains a usable desktop. Everything else can then be installed over apt (though they really need to make a n00b-friendly alternative to Synaptic). If you want a specific desktop, download the correct CD for it. Ie, Gnome (Ubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), or XFCE (Xubuntu).
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They did. Applications->Add/Remove... opens a simple install/uninstall gui, that includes most apps that someone who's likely to be confused by Synaptic could possibly want. It's at least as easy as MS's add/remove programs in Control Panel. Need more? File->advanced in that same program will open Synaptic.
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My install media weigh the same if I burn Damn Small Linux or a full DVD worth of software.
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Yes... and it seems they've thought of this. There's a single-CD download, which installs a minimal system and then lets you get the rest over the network. I'll be getting this one, I think: I don't care to clutter up my room with unnecessary coasters!
http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-fre e-2007-mini.torrent
Soon as the ADSL contention clears tonight at about half-elevenish, I'll totally nab that.
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It's just a matter of how many packages are installed by default, and I respect the fact that you like having lots of 'em to choose from.
I'm just being a pedant about packaging systems for Linux is all.
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Not everything in the past has worked right (There's a reason I'm using FC5 or Ubuntu
right at the moment for my main systems...)- their SQA has left quite a bit to be
desired in the past. To be sure, 2006-1 was probably one of their best iterations;
but like before in the past, things like PCMCIA not working 100% of the time on 100%
of the platforms just mar the whole experience. Oh, I'll continue to be a member and
install on part of my platforms, but that's because I'm needing it for testing purposes.
Unless it really shows up nice and stable, it's not going on everything.
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"Our OS will run on every single supported platform. All 5 of them!"
Laugh it up (Score:4, Interesting)
Back before I just threw in the towel and started drilling holes in my walls, I would have killed a man for a "Linux 802.11 Card." When you want a wireless card for your Mac, you go into a store, and you buy it. Note that I said "it," not "one." Because there's only one. (Okay, at some points there have been multiple, i.e. Airport vs. Airport Extreme, but most computers could only take one or the other.) Yeah, it costs more, but there's no messing around with anything.
I've wondered if maybe some Linux User's Group wanted to do this as a fund-raiser: do a bulk-purchase of some Linux-compatible peripheral (say a WL card or TV tuner) in OEM packaging, and then wrap it up with the appropriate drivers and sell it over the web at a 50-60% markup. I think you'd move product -- too often do you get recommendations for a product that works well, only to find that it's been discontinued or only sold in some other country, or it's nearly impossible to tell which products use it. (This was my experience finding Prism-based WL cards.)
Laugh all you want, but "choice" isn't always good, particularly when it means just having a high signal/noise ratio. Having one and only one hardware configuration available is better than having a thousand hardware configurations available, if only one or two of them works perfectly. In the first case, you have a 100% chance of getting the 'good' config, in the latter, you might as well buy Lotto tickets.
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That said, a LUG could not afford to purchase hardware in bulk and hope they have enough customers to buy all of it over a short period of time. Hardware changes (improves) too rapidly an
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Or we could draft up a generic letter to some manufacturers statings something along the lines of:
"Your (insert product here) has met or exceeded criteria to be considered ready for linux thanks to (community/oem drivers). As such please feel free to atta
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Some vendors do care enough to show it.
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In case you haven't heard, there is a HDTV tuner card made specifically for linux [pchdtv.com], to receive Over-The-Air hdtv broadcasts, and analogue cable channels. I believe that as of kernel 2.6.12, driver modules are included with the kernel
Windows XB (Score:2)
Windows XB [xbox.com].
XBOX 100.0% stable? (Score:2)
(But close. Same thing happened with the first one)
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Here's an example even more basic than PCMCIA issues.
I own a pretty standard Microsoft optical mouse (2 buttons, plus that wheelie thing). My last attempt with Mandrake/Mandriva the installer system found the mouse and worked great, but after installation it could never find the mouse. Just try navigating without a mouse, even just to try to find the control panel for the mouse.
How could the in
But at least... (Score:3, Funny)
If only it were "Hello Kitty" I dould download it at once for my niece.
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Pfffttt... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pfffttt... (Score:4, Funny)
EX:
"OOOoh.... It looks like he's caused a segmentation fault. That's gotta hurt."
"Wow. Now, that there's just some good old fashioned permissions problems. He's gonna need to log as root and run some chmod and chown commands."
"You know, right there's where you really have the option of some good coding. The rehashing of that string with the library function would make your code quite a bit more efficient. Just like in the old days."
And everyone's favorite,
"Boy, that's a good little piece of code, but you could really use a run back to the manual on that one."
I'd love to see the whiteboard-enabled screen on my code sometimes, and have someone who knew what they were doing scribble out what was wrong with it, but maybe that's just me.
Distibution Errors: #1 (Score:4, Informative)
the real error... (Score:2)
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20061002 [distrowatch.com]
Today is the day of desktop linux! (Score:5, Informative)
what realy bugs me is nfs mounted home folder (Score:1)
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Get yourself a Windows box. It'll go down much more often than your gf.
Mandriva/Ubuntu. (Score:5, Interesting)
One thing that annoys me though is the high price for the retail version. A silver membership will be more expensive than Vista in just 2-3 years. I think.
I might have to re-evaluate running KUbuntu on my laptop. I do however remember that there was something that annoyed me so much about the packages in Mandriva that I just had to switch. I think it was the fact that new packages came to the distribution at such a slow pace.
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Just one question: what do you think how many new releases Mandriva will live to see during those years ? And Windows ? I'm not saying it's cheap, I'm saying your comparison is flawed.
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Or 4-6 years for 2 PCs.
Or 6-9 years for 3 PCs.
Or 20-30 years if you install on a small office or install for relatives too.
Why the stock 2.4 kernel!?!? (Score:2)
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I prefer SUSE, Fedora or Ubuntu (Score:3, Interesting)
This will probably get modded down as flamebait, but honestly I prefer SUSE over Mandriva (Mandrake). I have tried Mandrake many times over the past few years, and even joined their "Mandrake Club" a few years back when they were on the brink of Bankruptcy to help them out; however, I have always felt that their Distro was never QA'ed as well as SUSE or Redhat for that matter. When you fire up the latest SUSE, you tell you have a professionally QA'ed product, as everything works out of the box. With Mandriva on the other hand, everything looks great on paper. They always have some of the latest packages, and include alot of the new technology; however, there are always a few things that dont work well with my system after I install it. In fact, on more than one occasion, I've even had trouble installing a new release of Mandriva.
Now I have nothing against Mandriva, and I like urmpi, but I think I may pass on this release, or try it out on a Virtual machine first before getting rid of my SUSE and Fedora boxes.... Now there's a thought..
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BEFORE YOU INSTALL READ THIS:
The package manager in SUSE 10.1 is regrettably broken on most systems.
I wouldn't be bragging about QA on a distro that ships with a broken package manager (sort of an integral part of the OS).
No distro comes close to Mandriva for ease of use. (Score:4, Interesting)
Sure some of the other distros are just starting to catch up now, they usually have a hodge-podge of utilties that work similar to the Mandriva ones, but few have a consistent interface and you usually need to know what they are called before you know what to click on, they aren't all located in one easy to find place. If you want a distro your mom can install and use, this is about as close as it comes currently.
Here is the list of just some of the custom utilties Mandriva (Mandrake) offers for configuring your system:
lsnetdrake,menudrake,drakbug,mandrakegalaxy.real,
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Plus, there is the **other** configuration utility included in Mandriva that everybody forgets:
vi
Yes, you can use vi to configure your Mandriva and be happy.
That's why I like Mandriva, choice:
If I'm lazy or I want to show off, I use the Mandriva Control Center.
If I want to configure something fast, screen + vi
I wonder if those who call Mandriva a n00b distro have ever try it to use Mandriva as a serious distro. I do.
Peace!
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Yes, But Will It Configure Your Touchpad? (Score:2)
When it works. (Score:3, Interesting)
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And I'm not blaming Mandriva for its mistakes from 3 years ago; I'm just asking why I should give it a second chance with Ubuntu as stable and easy to use as it is--what can it offer me that Ubuntu can't?
I was also addressing all those MEPIS/FC/Mandriva fans who are annoyed at the popularity of Ub
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In Linux this is an eternety.
Seriously.
Ubuntu is basically Debian with less packages, a different desktop theme and lots of free CDs being shipped around.
Back then, you did try Debian, it did not work. If Ubuntu existed back then, 100% sure it would not work.
Ubuntu, via marketing, is capitalizing on users like you, who tried Linux before Linux was able to work with all your hardware and now it y'all think it is only Ubuntu's work who make it possible.
Dude, Linux is Linux is Linux.
All Lin
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what about updates? (Score:1)
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PPC Version? (Score:1)
I can't seem to find one for this or the previous version
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Web site slow . . .download links below (Score:4, Informative)
i586
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free
dual architecture DVD
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free
Questions for those who've used it (Score:2, Interesting)
Here's what I'd like to know:
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I don't have an answer, but I agree that that is one of the two problems that finally got to the point where I switched from Mandriva to Kubuntu a couple of months ago. Compared to Mandriva, Kubuntu is a bit... weird :-) But that's probably just because I've been using Mandrake/Mandriva since 2000. I'll try out 2007, but it will have to have improved vastly in three areas for me to cons
Does Bronze == Standard??? (Score:2)
Also, when you try to upgrade your membership, it sends you to the download page where you have no access because your membership level is too low. When you click the link to renew/upgrade you go back to the download page... Rinse, repeat. Great Q/A on the club site.
Music contest results? (Score:2)
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Most importantly, synaptic has the option to re-install a package without much fuss, I have not found this functionality in (the gui version of) urpmi. I was seriously considering switching to K
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I may have to try the live CD then. Mainly I want to test the new rpm drake and more importantly I want to see if my soundcards digital out is supported by de
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Thats how my gentoo install got so broken so quickly, that I hadent even finished configuring before updates were starting to break the system.
Having said that, Mandriva is a long way from perfect (e.g. they seem to have rushed through the QA again, I barly had time to install the beta before RC2 was out.
My current picks are Ubuntu for the ultimate newbie (Web/Mail/Office) user, M
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Have you ever heard of urpmi tools? Looks like not.
* urpmq foobar
returns list of packages with name foobar
* urpmq -y foo
returns list of packages with name foo, foo*, *foo and *foo*
* urpmf foobar
gets back with a list of packages that include files named *foobar*
More on WikiPedia [wikipedia.org]
On the GUI you have a nice "search" box.
Peace!
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Certainly not because of apt. I fully agree with you on the rest.
Mandrake/riva has been a very friendly (I didn't write user-friendly on purpose) distro for much more years than Ubuntu has lived and it still is a very very nice distro. No reason to mock it, and certainly no fanboy ubuntuism can lower its merits.
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Plenty of things could be mentioned here.
- Debian was doing a lot less marketing than certain other distros
- People were still in the mindset that Linux == Red Hat
- Many people refused to use Debian, because it had no graphical installer
- Debian stable tends to be far away from cutting edge, and "unstable" sounds scary
- Actually, _didn't_ Debian win around 1999? Do you ha
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But it did, you see, it did. Come on, you must remember the flame wars between the supporters of the de-facto distribution debian and those who went for this new distro that liked to compile everything on install and loved its flags, what's it called again... gentoo, that's right, on this very site. I used to be a debian fanboy, I loved sid, but I finally switched to Ubuntu because under debian, only about half the hardware in my laptop worked out-of-the-box. Under Ubu
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Ubuntu is too minimalistic in its 'control panel' options. There's too many things you cannot do without nursing those activities from the CLI. Ubuntu has no security features recommended on laptops: WPA, VPN, firewall, encrypted partitions, etc. Even home folders are not set as private. You must configure them all from the CLI or at best with afterthought add-ons like Firestarter.
The Ubuntu installer is complete amatuer-hour (no, really, it looks like a script that
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- No choice of the locale at install time (ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8).
- Installer won't let you leave a partition alone, they must all be assigned a mount point.
- Won't install on an external hard drive out-of-the-box.
- GRUB won't install anywhere but the master boot record of the first drive.
- No rescue mode on the live CD even though the option is documented in the Fn.
- No official kernel patched with the vastly superior suspend2.
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Re:Ubuntu has already won (Score:5, Insightful)
No.
I just can't think of a reason to use anything *but* Ubuntu on the desktop.
The Linux way might well be summed up as "To Each His Own."
KFG
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Mandrake has the advantage of third-party commercial support, more so for Novell/SLED. Mandrake also has very good external repositories (such as the Penguin Liberation Front). Mandrake also has an edge over Ubuntu in GUI config management and better
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No it has not. (Score:2)
Because on my hardware (three desktop machines, two laptops), Mandriva works out of the box. Ubuntu won't even install a bootable system on *any* of them, much less allow me to accomplish actual work. And apparently I'm not the only one. I'm also an "early seeder" for Mandriva, and the drag on my dedicated server has not been *less* than 2 megaBYTES/second since the release announcement this morning.
Y
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Personally I use Gentoo Linux almost exclusively, but I use Linux mostly on a lot of weird hardware and embedded systems.
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1 feeds a small group of monkeys that help a lot (HI ADAM)
2 offical club benefits
3 updates that won't (the monkeys hope) trash your system
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You might need to go to easyurpmi first to set up the online repositories.
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