They say first love never dies, and I guess there is a degree of truth in that. Mandrake the predecessor of Mandriva was my first Linux, and despite the fact that over the years our ways parted, I have a sentiment for this distribution and I come back to it every now and again to check what’s new. This time round I decided to have a look the newest addition to Mandriva family; Madriva One 2009.1 Spring, boldly promising to bring the best of the latest cutting edge technology to your desktop. As promises go this is a big one, and after reading the release note on the Madriva website I wondered if this once probably the most popular distro is ready regain the leaser position.
First Impressions and Installation
After popping the live CD into the drive, rebooting my laptop and waiting for a couple of minuets for the system to load I was welcomed to new, shiny KDE 4.2.2 desktop. The default theme is aya with a light blue background and Mandriva logo on it, even though I’m not an aya lover I have to admit, things were looking very good indeed.
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Mandriva 2009.1
Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 is available to download since yesterday April 6th, 2009. Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 codename “Estephe” is a preview and “look-for-bugs” before make available the final release: Mandriva 2009.1. Mandriva is used by million of Linux users around the world because it is very easy to install and it is considered to have the best hardware support among all the Linux distributions around there. Moreover, Mandriva is used by small and large business to power web servers, FTP services, redundant systems and to reduce office costs.
Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 features.
- KDE 4.2.2.
- Gnome 2.26.
- XFCE 4.6.
- X.org Server 1.6.
- Kernel 2.6.29.
- OpenOffice 3.0.1.
- and much more…
Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 is available in:
- Mandriva 2009.1 RC2 DVD for 32 or 64 bits.
- Twin CD. For 32 or 64 bits architectures.
There is LiveCD One, using Gnome or KDE, but, opposite to the last mentioned medium, Mandriva’s LiveCD One includes propietary software.
Mandriva’s final release is scheduled to be available on April 29th, 2009.
Download Mandriva 2009.1 RC2.
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November 16th, 2008
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It had been a very long time since I used Mandrake (now, Mandriva) to power my old AMD K6 desktop PC. At the time, I was very happy using a 1280×1024 screen resolution supported by Mandriva in my integrated circuit! Then, I met others GNU/Linux distributions until I chose Slackware as my favorite one.
Today, I started wanting to try Mandriva Linux, again. I felt seducted by the Mandriva Flash device
Mandriva
so I decided to order one. However, I found this message:
“THIS PRODUCT IS NOT FOR SALE ANYMORE
A NEW VERSION IS COMMING SOON”
ummm… well… I’ll have to wait for the new Mandriva Flash device. I like this gadget because it is easy to carry on, it provides a complete “user-desktop” mobile solution to plug-in and boot (with the possibility to be installed) by almost any computer. Moreover, I trust Mandriva a lot and I think it has a very, very nice desktop environment that supports 3D effects. The new version of the Mandriva Flash device is coming with a boot and restore CD, it is, an additional item that I think is really important when we manage a Linux distribution. I read the price to be: 59 euros. I think it is a cheap price if you consider that the new Mandriva Flash device is 8 Gb!
