Star 'Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 Available for Download'
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Tue 23rd Jun 2009 02:48 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris "Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 is now available on public mirrors. This first alpha is available only through Free version, 32 and 64 bits DVDs. This development release is the first one realized without mkcd, our historical build tool, but using bcd available also on Mandriva svn. This new tool should improve global quality of our release and make tests much easier and efficient... Final release of 2010 version is due the 21st of October."
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RE[3]: Mandriva use
by satan666 on Tue 23rd Jun 2009 12:06 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Mandriva use"
satan666
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2008-04-18

True, but Mandriva did lose a lot of customers when they were Mandrake. I remember for several years they released distributions that were absolutely horrid when it came to testing; linux kernel compiled with some of the most beta and alpha quality drivers whilst boasting at the same time the largest hardware support (ignoring the reliability issues that came as a result).

I understand that alot of things have changed since but the reality is that it takes a lot of work to bring customers through the door but it only takes a couple of stupid poor quality releases to drive those said customers to the competition.

The Mandrake days are long gone, since then Mandriva released really solid versions starting with 2007.0 but continued to hurt themselves with bad business decisions. But if you take into account just the software, Mandriva is one of the best if not the best Linux distro.

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