OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19147/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Alpha_2_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:58:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com what 4? http://osnews.com/thread?295439 http://osnews.com/thread?295439 Seems like it's becoming a tradition to announce alpha/beta versions. Is it really worth effort? Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gsmd) Comments RE: what 4? http://osnews.com/thread?295451 http://osnews.com/thread?295451 This is OS News. It's news about an operating system.

You're welcome! ;) Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments RE: what 4? http://osnews.com/thread?295472 http://osnews.com/thread?295472
Seems like it's becoming a tradition to announce alpha/beta versions. Is it really worth effort?


You spent more effort posting this useless comment than it would have taken to ignore the article and simply move on. Is it really worth the effort? Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elsewhere) Comments RE: what 4? http://osnews.com/thread?295496 http://osnews.com/thread?295496 Its a heads up for us geeks.So, its news. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (islander) Comments Ubuntu is to blame http://osnews.com/thread?295523 http://osnews.com/thread?295523 I can remember when only very late betas or Release Candidates were announced and/or reviewed by tech sites. Now, every time an Ubuntu developer changes the default background image or updates a library it makes the front page of all the tech sites. I just don't see the sense in this. It would be like an audience attending the rehearsals of every major Broadway play and then critiquing the performance. I'd much rather see a well done review of the final release candidate ahead of the gold release then see a detailed reporting of the minutia of development. I don't care if this is OS news. There is a such a thing as too much information. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments RE: Ubuntu is to blame http://osnews.com/thread?295527 http://osnews.com/thread?295527
There is a such a thing as too much information.


There is such a thing as ignoring news items. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE: Ubuntu is to blame - it's of benefit to me http://osnews.com/thread?295532 http://osnews.com/thread?295532 As someone who's running 2008 on my primary workstation and regularily using the liveCD, I'm very happy that OSnews took a moment to let me know that 2008.1 repositories and liveCD are now available. I don't always have time to check back to the Mandriva site and this is the only one of my daily news sites that mentioned it.

Now, my ISP won't be very happy once I get the rsync commands in my local repository updater script what with my machine spending the next day and a bit building out the third repository collection. ;) Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments RE[2]: Ubuntu is to blame http://osnews.com/thread?295573 http://osnews.com/thread?295573 Excuse me? Why does my comment automatically label me as an "Ubuntu hater", as you seem to imply. I in fact use Ubuntu. And, I enjoy OSNews. So, why should I ignore some news items? Some items simply aren't news and certainly not worthy of entire articles about them. It's the same in all topics. Was it necessary for some major news outlets to spend two entire days discussing everything but the color of Hillary's underwear in the run up to the Iowa Caucuses? Perhaps I'll rephrase: There's a such a thing as unnecessary information. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cmost) Comments Mandriva and Ubuntu http://osnews.com/thread?295584 http://osnews.com/thread?295584 Mandriva is not just a free distribution. It is also a commercial distribution. Betas of commercial distributions "ARE" news.

Regarding Ubuntu, there was news here http://osnews.com/story/19143/Ubuntu_Hardy_Heron_Alpha_3_Released about an alpha build!Edited 2008-01-13 04:48 UTC Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments RE[3]: Ubuntu is to blame http://osnews.com/thread?295613 http://osnews.com/thread?295613 I would say this is not a big news item yet I think it still is worth posting here. Mandriva is after all a big distro used by quite a few people. Of course it would be annoying if all the possible alpha and prerelease versions were announced here but one every now and then? I see no problem with that. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments RE[3]: Ubuntu is to blame http://osnews.com/thread?295614 http://osnews.com/thread?295614
Excuse me? Why does my comment automatically label me as an "Ubuntu hater", as you seem to imply.


Err... because you troll every Ubuntu-related story with the same unfounded claims, and complain about OSNews reporting on it, *every chance you get*? And even interject your irrational obsession with Ubuntu into threads on completely unrelated stories, as you have done in this case?

Just a thought. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments Speaking of Mandriva http://osnews.com/thread?295618 http://osnews.com/thread?295618 Speaking of Mandriva, anyone has screenshots of this release? Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments