http://www.osnews.com/story/17467/Mandriva_Launches_Corporate_Desktop_4_0_Beta_Program Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2010, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:59:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?220342 http://osnews.com/thread?220342 This is the kind of OS that will win Linux the majority of corporate desktops. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Supreme Dragon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220345 http://osnews.com/thread?220345 The star may just shine again, seems to be headed in a very nice direction. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220360 http://osnews.com/thread?220360 5 year product maintenance and it sounds like they are really going to have a good OS for the Corporate market. I use to run Mandrake several years ago I may want to download and try it out!

On more note PDF files are handled so gracefully in any Linux Distro on a Windows OS it just about brings the box down with the cpu pegged at 100%. In Linux it is so easy to view and with all of the nice applications just another star for a Linux distro good work Mandriva.Edited 2007-03-12 01:21 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Southern.Pride) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220399 http://osnews.com/thread?220399 I have tried Mandriva corporate Server and I can say that it is the 2nd best linux server OS in stability only after Redhat; I have tried Suse and found it to be so buggy, heavy and strange somehow.

But the problem right now with mandriva is its broken packages handling. Ubuntu has solved this excellently.

Installation of mandriva corporate server shocked me with its amazing speed it to took to finish. It's one of the fastest installable linux distro I have seen, unlike the era taking SUSE with its super slow Yast.

After installation finishes the distro will feel fast in most areas but not all areas, sometimes it might hang though with special device installtions, unlike Redhat/Fedora which show consistent performance over all of its tools.

"mcc" or mandrake control center need to be revised and improved and nested windows should be removed to allow quick access to configuration settings; but again it is much more fast than SUSE yast2 or sax2 programs.

Finally, for Home Desktop users I advice Ubuntu, for Corporate Desktop Redhat, for Small/Medium Businesses Xandros and for Developers' Desktop Solaris 11 x86. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220436 http://osnews.com/thread?220436 I tried to download the isos this week-end, and it's been really slow... Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lezard) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220477 http://osnews.com/thread?220477 """
The star may just shine again, seems to be headed in a very nice direction.
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Perhaps. But as a Mandrake user from way back, I suspect that Mandriva will find a way to flub it all up and apologize later for having repeated whatever stupid mistakes they will repeat this time.

It's their corporate MO. ;-) Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220506 http://osnews.com/thread?220506 http://news.com.com/French+parliament+picks+Ubuntu+for+Linux+switch... Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stephanem) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220685 http://osnews.com/thread?220685 Not trying to be argumentative, but...why did you get modded up for that? Because someone agrees with your opinion?

If your post had given some insight as to why it'd make a great corporate desktop, I can understand the moderation. You didn't give any reason though.

So, I invite you to tell us: What makes Mandriva's corporate offering so much better than Novell's? Red Hat's? Ubuntu? Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DittoBox) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220706 http://osnews.com/thread?220706 "So, I invite you to tell us: What makes Mandriva's corporate offering so much better than Novell's? Red Hat's? Ubuntu?"

I didn't say Mandriva would win the majority of corporate desktops, I said LINUX would. Mandriva is just one of many great choices they have for a corporate desktop. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Supreme Dragon) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?220740 http://osnews.com/thread?220740 What exactly is broken about Mandriva's package management? They use urpmi and I rate it as high as apt-get if not higher. What has Ubuntu solved that Mandriva had not solved before? Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gireesh) Comments