Mandriva 2009.0: Much improved since last year
Last year I gave a mixed review to Mandriva 2008.1 (Spring) and I would like to take the opportunity to retract many of the bad points:
After having gone over 2009.0, both Free (on my desktop) and One (on my laptop), I feel that Mandriva 2009 is much improved, I’ll go over some talking points here.
Installation:
On the Free DVD, there’s not really a whole lot you must mess with, you can if you want but there’s not much return on investment as most of the defaults with the preselected desktop environments are fairly good and you probably won’t need to remove more than a package or two when it’s done anyway.
I chose the GNOME edition, and there’s a few things I want to point out with the installer itself:
1. Mandriva is one of the few distributions that lets you have the XFS file system on /boot with GRUB as your bootloader, so all you really need is SWAP and one / partition with XFS if that’s all you want.
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