Mandriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. Download the hybrid live/install CD One or the purely free/open source Free. Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring includes the latest software (KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0) and several new features: Metisse; WengoPhone; Google desktop applications like Picasa and Earth; updates and improvements to many of the Mandriva configuration tools and the brand new drakvirt for configuring virtualization; and a brand new desktop theme. For more information see the Spring product page and the Wiki page, where you can find download and installation instructions, the Release Tour, the Release Notes and the Errata.
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Member since:2006-04-19
Yes, the Free version is not crippled or trial in any way. I use "free" and it works extremely well on my hardware. A very polished release and perhaps the best and most stable release they ever made (and I have tested lots(!) of their releases over the years). Two thumbs up from my side.
2007.1 lives now happily next to my RHEL/Startcom system. 
Member since:2005-07-06
Go ahead and visit http://www.happyassassin.net/
that's running on 2007.1 Free.
Apache is, of course, in the public repositories. *Every* free / open source package in Mandriva is in the public repositories. This has always been the case whatever we happened to be called at the time. There have always been commercial and free editions of Mandriva / Mandrake, and the difference has always been just that the commercial editions come with manuals, support and commercial packages, and include more of the free packages on the discs (but the rest are always available from the public mirrors). I don't understand where you're drawing any kind of distinction between Mandrake and Mandriva. There was absolutely no change in this regard.
ncftp ...586/media/main/release > pwd
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/offic...
ncftp ...586/media/main/release > ls apache*
apache-base-2.2.4-6mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-conf-2.2.4-4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-devel-2.2.4-6mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-doc-2.2.4-3mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm
(etc)
adding public Internet repositories to an install is very easy and documented here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removin...
I don't see where I'm whining about anything. On the page in question you can download a complete, fully functional operating system for the huge price of *nothing*. In return you have to suffer the agony of seeing an advert for a service. We're very sorry for your pain.
Member since:
2005-07-06
Man, I need to shoot whoever keeps putting 'trial' in there.
No. It's a full, fully functional distribution. It doesn't expire, it's not crippled in any way. The only real difference with the commercial editions is they include some commercial software. There are a lot of people out there who use Free as their OS of choice.
And, well, excuse us for trying to make a living, but we do need to eat.
[edit: grammar fix]
Edited 2007-04-18 04:37