http://www.osnews.com/story/18655/Mandriva_Linux_2008_RC2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?273293 http://osnews.com/thread?273293 > over 500 bug fixes since [bold}RC2[/bold}

amazing !Edited 2007-09-22 01:07 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (superman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273344 http://osnews.com/thread?273344 And yet it is a good distribution. It was my first one and I loved it. I changed to SUSE and Debian (actually Libranet) only because of hardware support issues. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous Penguin) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273346 http://osnews.com/thread?273346 Go Mandriva!!!
Hope this release will reinforce the position of Mandriva as a truly desktop oriented distro with great flexibility for power-users too.
The past couple of releases have been absolutely top notch and I am quite confident that this trend continues. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gireesh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273351 http://osnews.com/thread?273351 sigh. one day I'll write a release announcement WITHOUT a stupid typo in it...:) Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273354 http://osnews.com/thread?273354 What mandriva is slowly learning is that communication with the community is much more important then rock solid distribution (as we can see with ubuntu - sorry I just had to say it ). I really like all the beta and rc wiki pages with the "what's new" and "Notes" pages. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (imapi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273371 http://osnews.com/thread?273371 In the past Mandriva has been a bit like Novell writ small. The management team could and would screw up anything that went right.

e.g. firing Gael Duval, over-priced club, weird software-install portal (whatever happened to that anyway?), poor communication with users, shocking release bugs, screwed up the deal with LinDVD, etc. etc.

Hopefully this is all in the past now. Although it would be good to see the club cost lowered and have LinDVD back for 2008.0. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (davidiwharper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273405 http://osnews.com/thread?273405 disappointing ... Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (p.leiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273423 http://osnews.com/thread?273423 Which file is the "One combined live / install CD edition"? I've been waiting for this one, but I can't distinguish it from the other RC2 files.

Thanks. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dhave) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273427 http://osnews.com/thread?273427 It just got uploaded a couple of minutes ago to the master mirror. Will sync to other mirrors soon. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273429 http://osnews.com/thread?273429 it's not on the public mirrors yet - it only just got uploaded a couple of minutes ago. It will have 'One' in the name when it appears. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273433 http://osnews.com/thread?273433 O.K., thanks for letting us know. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dhave) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273434 http://osnews.com/thread?273434 Indeed, it's a pitty that Mandriva is loosing it's place in the spotlight, since it is a great distro, I too started my Linux affair with Mandrake.

Nowadays I prefer using Fedora for myself, but on other's computers I always go for Mandriva for its general speed and ease of configuration.

By the way, good work for the devs. That number of bug fixes sure looks impressive! And thanks for the nice list of documented new features

PS: there's a typo in the article summary where it says "500 bug fixes since RC2" - should be since RC1.Edited 2007-09-22 16:56 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chocobanana) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273481 http://osnews.com/thread?273481 500 bugs?! You call that "Release Candidate" ?? Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (prymitive) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273497 http://osnews.com/thread?273497 With Mandriva it's always like this. RCs aren't real RC's.....

By the way : The One KDE i586 is online !

regards,
glyj Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (glyj) Comments