http://www.osnews.com/story/19602/Mandriva_Linux_2008_Spring_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:01:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?308886 http://osnews.com/thread?308886 can be found here: http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p... Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308891 http://osnews.com/thread?308891 I understand that the DVD has more room, so there are packages on it that can't fit on the CDs. But I wonder why there are packages on the CDs that aren't on the DVD.

Here are some of the packages on the free CDs that aren't on the free DVD:
- bison
- dia
- dump
- gif2png
- icewm
- minicom
- openoffice.org-help-*
- openssh-askpass Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308902 http://osnews.com/thread?308902 Which ONE edition would be right for a newbie? What-oriented is Mandriva? GNOME or KDE? Also, do I download i18n, int or asia? Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sumone) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308905 http://osnews.com/thread?308905 It depends. If you are a Windows-oriented user, I would usually recommend the KDE version, but the Gnome version is also quite easy to use. Since it is a liveCD, you can just boot off the disc and take a look without affecting your system whatsoever.

There should be an iso file without the i18n, asia, or int suffixes, which would be for native English speakers. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatline) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308909 http://osnews.com/thread?308909 I haven't tried Mandriva lately, but the last time I did they actually seemed to do a good job of providing a decent experience between either GNOME or KDE. They have been known as more of a KDE distribution though if you really want to know. Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hands) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308914 http://osnews.com/thread?308914 you would want the int version.
Get either KDE or GNOME. Both are easy to use and should get you started off. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gireesh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308915 http://osnews.com/thread?308915 The version of KDE4 included in this release is KDE4.0.3.
See http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Tour#KDE_3.5.9_and_4.0.3 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gireesh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?308916 http://osnews.com/thread?308916 See your language here

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1#Managing_Languages_in_Mandriva_L...

to choose the right iso image of Mandriva One.

I prefer KDE and Mandriva is known as one of the best KDE-centric distributions but in the last versions they are offering a very good Gnome implementation.

And if you download the Free edition you will have both KDE and Gnome packages in the same media (DVD or 3 CDROMs). You can use ou experiment both and decide which you prefer.

This version is very good. I installed today in one notebook and all was detected and installed without troubles. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shiva) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309016 http://osnews.com/thread?309016 Thanks everyone for replying. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sumone) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309032 http://osnews.com/thread?309032 Not long installed this on my new toshiba p200-1ee. It's my first, 'out-of-the-box' install on such a relatively modern piece of kit. Even the Chicony web cam works (which seemed doubtful at the time I bought the lappy around three months ago - a bit of desk research then threw up only tentative signs of hope). The Vista import tool works quickly and for me without problems. This is one seriously well-honed distribution for the eternal noobs out there like me who are geeks of the heart, rather than the intellect ;-) Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309130 http://osnews.com/thread?309130 Looks like another sweet release! Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reinouts) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309157 http://osnews.com/thread?309157 This looks like a popular release.

I chose to download the free DVD via bittorrent. It has been running for a day and a half now using most of my 256KB/s upload capacity. I have downloaded the whole 4.3GB but have uploaded 6.5 times that much. So far. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KenJackson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309345 http://osnews.com/thread?309345 I had problems with some packages in Beta 1:
- audacity didn't work (slow record or no input recognition)
- Blender didn't start due to some problem in libav51.so or similar
Have these been solved? Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (minthaka) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?309361 http://osnews.com/thread?309361 If you want to know that, simply check the status of the bugs you filed for those problems.

You did file bugs, didn't you? Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (reinouts) Comments