The inaugural release of Mandriva One, a new live CD that aims to simplify the installation of the Mandriva Linux operating system to a hard disk directly from the live CD, has been released: “An operating system is generally available as a live CD or a set of installation CDs, but not both on the same disc. Mandriva One differs in offering an all-in-one CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006.“
Mandriva One 2006.0 Released
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An operating system is generally available as a live CD or a set of installation CDs, but not both on the same disc. Mandriva One differs in offering an all-in-one CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006
Ummm, actually this is pretty common these days. Knoppix has done it for a long time, as has DragonFlyBSD, and the next release of Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) will do it as well.
Thus the word “generally” — I wouldn’t say only one Linux distribution out of the hundreds available these days is “pretty common.”
it’s called PR, we could have written a release announcement which said “hey, here’s our new release which is just doing the same thing X and Y already did, no big deal, don’t take any notice!” but that doesn’t really work too well, does it?
the initial version said it was the “only” combined CD but I cut that out in the proofread, heh…
“Mandriva One differs in offering an all-in-one CD based on Mandriva Linux 2006” … just like PCLinuxOS, as it too is based on Mandriva.
..but then, why let the truth get in the way of a good story? It’s only PR!
Edited 2006-03-19 10:39
it’s not “untrue”, anyway. the PR says “generally”, and this is true – distros with a combined CD and the exception rather than the rule (and MDV is the biggest one by quite a way).
(edit: typo)
Edited 2006-03-19 20:12
That’s true, Pclinux OS 0.92 is a live Cd and also an installation disc, so Mandriva One comes a little bit late.
For a minute there, I thought Mandriva had adopted Gentoo’s versioning scheme. But the release announcement doesn’t have a dot-zero anywhere I can see.
Looks like a mistake in the title.
I don’t think it’s a mistake. They probably just didn’t use that naming scheme in the press. Go look at the mirrors. they are all ~/2006.0/
2006.0 is fine. i dunno why we needed the .0, but it is there officially (as the other dude said, all the mirrors have it).
It would have been a better idea to come out with a DVD that you can run as a Live CD or install without booting into a full liveCD environment. I’m already surprised that some distributions need at least 256 MB of ram just for the installer, but when it’s a live CD the minimum ram goes up to at minimum 512 MB.