The GNOME version of Mandriva Linux 2008 One has been released and is now available via BitTorrent or from the mirror sites. Featuring all the same new features as the other editions of Mandriva Linux 2008, with a fully up-to-date GNOME 2.20 desktop. In addition, another review of Mandriva 2008.
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"Since setup I've not experienced any problems. My system is fast, responsive, and stable."
Same experience here. After having used the 2008 release for nearly a week now, I must say that this is a very good release. Works like a charm on my desktop- and laptop-machines.
Thank you Mandriva-developers. 
Edited 2007-10-15 14:34
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why the hell does http://www.linux.com/feature/119783 not loading in Firefox or Opera while it does load in IE???
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Mandriva 2008 does rock.
Slapped it on the test machine after my OpenSuse 10.3 debacle.The system is all the article said bar none.It boots fast , was easy to install and the desktop is very responsive not to mention very appealing to look at.
Good job Mandriva team.Its a great release of a great distro.
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haha it's just silly marketing - we wouldn't want to use a 2007 distro in 2008 right? that would be so lame! haha
seriously though the name has no real relevance to the quality of the distro and I know this - however I don't like the idea of linux distros getting so caught up in marketing that they have to add to a year to seem "newer". Especially since "newer" is not necessarily "better" Again - I'm glad mandriva is still going - mandrake was my first linux distro and I'm glad there are still options out there.
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I gave Mandriva 2008 a shot not long ago, and it is indeed a very nice release. I like the direction Mandriva is heading in lately, through I decided to just stick with PCLinuxOS because it's already there, configured and updated, and switching to Mandriva would be more or less redundant
Thanks Mandriva team for all your work!
Edited 2007-10-15 16:59
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I installed Mandriva 2008 KDE One. I liked mostly everything here except artwork. It does not look polished . Bootsplash looks out of focus. But the real show stopper for me was the way the fonts look on Mandriva. I tried any possible settings but no dice. I wonder, whether there is something Mandriva specific about display of fonts. I have no such problems with other distros. Can anybody give some hints?
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Well, I liek sharp fonts. I usually install Tahoma ot Verdana on my boxes and then tweak with antialising and DPI (in Kcontrol) to get the look I like. And ir works with all distros, but unfortunately not in Mandriva - here I got fonts which either crippled or out of focus. I used to have the same issue with PCLOS. So I thought that may be there is something Mandriva specific.
It is pity as I liked the performance, but I just cannot stand crippled fonts. Want to use Mandriva, but this is real show stopper.
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Why isn't freetype compiled with the bytecode interpreter in Mandriva? I think Debian, ubuntu, opensuse and most of the others use it by default. Fonts without anti-aliasing looks terrible in Mandriva(thats my only complaint. 2008 rocks! .
Eudoxus: add the plf-repo(guide: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ ) and upgrade the libfreetype-package.
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Patents. I don't understand why the other distros believe they can enable it without patent problems.
For the same reasons they believe they can ship their distribution without problems.
Take a look at Novell and Red Hat, and what they're being sued for. If you start thinking about patents too much you should simply quit distributing a complete software distribution such as Mandriva.
So it comes down to this: who owns the font-rendering related patents? Are they actually valid patents? Is it likely that freetype infringes them? And the most important question: what are the chances that they owners will sue you?
Looking from that angle, I would ship freetype, NTFS, .doc support and SMB with no fear. I'd be more careful with MP3 and other media related stuff though...
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also, I should really add - it's not *just* patents. Freetype's own position is that they consider their autohinting code superior to the bytecode interpreter for most fonts, and many people agree with this. For instance, I personally prefer the output with the bytecode interpreter disabled to the output with it enabled. As I mentioned, font rendering is an extremely subjective issue, and it also differs from font to font and monitor to monitor.
Edited 2007-10-16 19:38
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I tried Mandriva 2008 on my laptop, and like most everything about it, and I agree with a lot of the comments here.
However, Mandriva enables numlock by default, causing corresponding letter keys to put in the numbers instead.
Thus, I took the following steps.
1. In MCC - Services, I turned off the NumLock Daemon.
2. In KDE CC, Peripherals, Keyboard, turned off the NumLock toggle.
3. Configured KDE to allow root login. Logged into KDE as root, and did the same thing as #2.
This mostly solves the problem. For logging into KDE normally, no problem. For opening normal (non-root) apps in KDE, no problem. But as soon as I open something that requires root access, the Num Lock is on again, and I end up failing logging in because I don't realize that Num Lock is on. Then I use the blue "Fn" key with the "Num Lock" key to turn it off, and I'm able to log in. But then in the regular (non-root) KDE environment Num Lock is back on. AARRRGGHHH!!
Yes, once again I can turn it off again with the blue "Fn" key and the "Num Lock" key.
But doing all this stuff is a huge annoyance (to say the least) and a big time waster, and is about as pleasant as finger nails on a chalkboard.
All that said, I want to like Mandriva 2008 and use it. It has lots of good things going for it. And I'd be glad to give it my full endorsement, if only I can easily get past this Num Lock issue satisfactorily.
Perhaps it's a simple matter of choosing a more laptop oriented keyboard (rather than the default "Generic US keyboard" during the live boot process. I dunno.
But any hot tips to get around this would be greatly appreciated.
Edited 2007-10-15 23:00
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Did they screw with the Gnome menus like the majority of RPM based distributions tend to do? I like a flat Applications -> Internet, Applications -> Games, etc. None of this Applications -> Internet -> Web Browsers. I really only need one or two web browsers installed. There are really only the need for a maximum of five web browsers. I don't think that really constitutes the need for it's own sub-menu, especially since one of those browsers would be IE and would be under Wine.
This is what keeps me away from most of the RPM based distributions. OpenSuSE decided to go one step further and completely ignored the normal Gnome menu. Ugh.
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See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Tour#New_menu_... :
"A new menu layout has been introduced. This menu is a merger between the old simplified and Mandriva menu layouts. It is flatter than the old Mandriva layout, with no more than two levels below the top level used at any point."
There's also a little tool called drakmenustyle , also available in the Mandriva Control Center - you can switch from the Mandriva menu layout to the standard GNOME (or KDE, if you run KDE) layout if you prefer it.
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2005-07-06
The mandriva ONE KDE CD complains it doesn't have the dhcp-client package and won't connect to my dhcp wifi router (it is visible in a scan though)
Also, the "Live Install" won't start.... So frustrating
So far, none of the major new distros has managed to install on my PC....
Edited 2007-10-16 08:20
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