Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Aug 2006 17:55 UTC, submitted by michuk
Beta versions of Mandriva 2007 have been appearing for a while now and the final release is coming soon. This short review covers the key changes introduced in beta 2. "Except for the software update which has been awaited by the Mandriva fans for a long time, there are no revolutionary changes or something that could put Mandriva 2007 in front of the competition. Still, not many distros provide such easy installation and configuration process. In Mandriva, almost all works out-of-the-box (including an MP# player) or network setup. And this is the reason I think Mandriva can be still recommended for the newbie users."
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2006-05-09
The only thing I dislike in Mandriva is that it does not come with a simple way to find and add repositories, and people need to go to easyurpmi site to find them.
I am still using LE2005 and sometimes a repository goes down, and the error messages when I try to install a package says nothing usefull. If that kind of things become solved, would make Mandriva near to perfection, because it has the best installer I ever tried, with simple partitioning and hardware detection, a very good Control Center for system configuration, and urpmi and RPMdrake needs a little work to be perfect.