Mandriva announces the upcoming launch of Mandriva Linux 2010
Mandriva announces the upcoming launch of Mandriva Linux 2010, the latest version of its innovative operating system. Mandriva Linux 2010 will be available from Tuesday, 3rd November.
Mandriva Linux offers new functionalities which will revolutionise the desktop. These include 'Smart Desktop', an original technology which offers dynamic acces to all your files by labelling your photos, documents, mails or videos and managing your personal data in a completely customised approach.
Mandriva Linux 2010 not only proposes the most advanced and easy to use Linux operating system on the market but also integrates a list of the most far-reaching software.
Mandriva Linux is a convivial operating system which will adapt to your computer and devices. You will be able to customise it according to your needs, or to improve it, and it allows your circle of acquaintances to share the experience.
Mandriva Linux 2010 will be available in three editions: Powerpack (the commercial edition, including exclusive commercial software, support, and services), One (a live CD which can also be installed to the system permanently) and Free (an edition which contains only free / open source software).
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Broken Promises
They been spamming the hell out of my email account. Please try us again. Please, please please. We won't be turds to our users again. Honest!
Re: Broken Promises
You know, Poodles, they've got this love/hate relationship with their users. When they were the big thing, a few years back, they enjoyed their desktop market share, but loathed the fact that the vast majority of them downloaded the free version and never sent a penny into them. They've never listened well to their user base, either. I've used them on and off over the years and have made lots of suggestions, most of which were responded with that they thought their users were too stupid and wouldn't catch on. Really? And to think that they've, now, lost that status as the most widely used desktop Linux distro to one that requires you to enter 'sudo blah blah blah' from a terminal to change anything.
Lately, I ran into a problem, that I made a point of making public on The Official Mandriva Blog, that I ran into quite a few bugs in Inkscape, pointed them out in Bugzilla, and was only responded to that they, indeed, verfied that the bugs exist. But guess what? No fix. They couldn't just package up the pre-release of .47, or go back to an earlier .46 package that worked. Nope... I have to wait to install Mandriva 2010 to fix it. This is crap.
http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/10/16/101-contributing-to-mandriva-linux/#comments
It's no wonder that they're not doing so well. PCLinuxOS is just a community distro that doesn't pretend to try and be a profitable enterprise, but they're heavily involved in their community, and very responsive. The very same bugs popped up in their version of Inkscape, and Texstar quickly responded by grabbing a pre-release of .47 and packaging it for us. It's no wonder they've done so well, despite being such a small group.
Re: Re: Broken Promises
ruel24 and I have, I think, followed similar paths with respect to Mandriva and PCLinuxOS. ruel24 is correct: to a great extent, Mandriva has managed to shoot itself in the foot.
Before PCLinuxOS, Texstar, the principal founder of PCLinuxOS would spend hours and days configuring new KDE RPMs for Mandriva's distro, when Mandriva wouldn't update its KDE RPMs to the latest KDE release.
Mandriva rewarded Texstar by referring people to RPM's packaged by a guy named "Textar".
Mandriva also has a history of treating Mandriva user groups badly.
I'd still be using PCLinuxOS, but my newer equipment prefers newer kernels, and I wanted to start using KDE 4 before Tex built those RPMs.
After criticizing Mandriva for its poor treatment of users and user groups, I should also note that Mandriva has largely been a good steward of FLOSS--no cozying up to Microsoft with patent agreements or other such nonsense.
I also think they're working hard to make the impending 2010 release a good one--it's starting to look good on my trial box.
With regard to inkscape (which is a terrific FLOSS vector graphics drawing program), I compiled my own. So, on my laptop, I'm running Mandriva 2009.1 with unofficial backported KDE 4.3.2 RPMs and the latest inkscape 0.47pre4, and this laptop is running rock solid.
Default theme
I like Mandriva but I am put off by their default theme (whatever its called!) Why can't Mandriva leave well alone (read Oxygen)?
I actually like Mandy's better...
Honestly, the background was better in 2009, but the Mandriva theme is much better than Air/Oxygen, IMO. I can't stand it when a distro is so lame it doesn't bother to theme either KDE or Gnome.