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: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:
2006-09-19
Bla,bla,bla,bla.
Where did I hear that before?
You and everyone else on the planet.
But most people don't whine about it.
And ad couple more versions of Mandriva and you'll be like Vista.
What will Mandriva Ultimate cost? $599?
And if I want to run one of the servers, like let's say Apache, then I suppose I have to buy the Powerpack+ at 179 euro?
Mandriva really cast a dark shadow over my somewhat pleasant memories of Mandrake which was the distro I started my Linux life with.
Segregating users into Club members and non-members and commercializing the distro so much was a really bad move.
Guess what a lot of the club non-members did? We moved to different distros and never looked back.
Find some other suckers for you club.