Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Nov 2006 21:49 UTC, submitted by mister
"Mandriva 2007 may be the best distribution I have used. Looking through Mandriva's forum, you see employees of the company who care and are genuinely trying to help. Mandriva offers 'Free as in freedom' versions and versions with propriatery software. You would expect a release like this to be trumpeted. Instead, the release was met with hostility. Forums on tech sites were filled with Linux users cheering for the end of Mandriva. What happened? How did a company that was loved at one time become so unpopular? Is the hostility justified?"
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2006-04-28
Ubuntu for the console? is this a feature you've found to be missing from other distributions?!
Mandrake 7, from at least 6 years ago, gave you a choice of desktop environment from the login screen, I used to change WM like i change my socks, I guess they've complicated the process since.
Go and grab yourself a Mandriva liveCD, try it out, if you like what you see then install it, mandrake has had a stronger installation routine than virtually any other linux distribution for a very long time now, if i were to boot a mandrake 7.2 installation disc now it would still make better judgement calls on auto partitioning than Ubuntu can.