The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Copernic, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live/install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being release at the same time as the other editions).
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Member since:2005-11-14
What makes it irrelevant? The fact that you don't use it or understand its history or how much they have done for free software on the desktop?
No, the fact that nobody is talking about it anymore, or at least not as much as before.
And, for your information, i've used all the FIRST releases of mandriva (when it was called mandrake), so I perfectly understand their history.
In every single Mandriva thread, there is somebody posting drivel such as yours, which is bereft of any technical content or real insight.
If you took the time to read my post, you would have seen that I was only wondering if it were an impression of mine, or if it was shared by someone else.
You must be such a mandriva fan boy that you see an attack in everything different from "Mandriva rulez" and so on.
Are you one of those people that think that everyone should switch to the one true distribution, which happens to be whatever you are currently using right now?
No, I'm just someone who likes to understand what's happening around, and who likes to talk with other people and hear their opinions.
Something that you are clearly not able to do.
Member since:2006-01-28
Yes, all of your insight boils down to the fact that it makes you doubt your own choice of distribution because not as many people you know use it or the sites that used to post more about Mandrake now post less.
So what? Yes, there are more distributions and each has it strengths and weaknesses, but since you are not going to get any form of meaningful statistical analysis on OSnews, your question amounts to little less than a rhetorical device to cast a shadow on Mandriva.
What else do you contribute to the discussion? Puff, you call me a fanboy, you could have also called me a zealot. Those two seem to go together well when people run out of logic or anything to say.
Except as I have mentioned in other Mandriva threads, I don't currently use Mandriva. Family members and friends do and I set it up for them and have a VMware installation to be able to answer any specific questions they ask, but it's not my main work or development environment.
Yet I am tired of people pissing on somebody else's work, which is what your implicit question about mind-share really was.
Look at every Mandriva thread and there is always someone like you repeating the same meme possibly looking, as you were, ("Do others agree?")for some form of validation.
Edited 2007-09-06 14:06
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2006-01-28
What makes it irrelevant? The fact that you don't use it or understand its history or how much they have done for free software on the desktop?
In every single Mandriva thread, there is somebody posting drivel such as yours, which is bereft of any technical content or real insight.
Mandriva is seemingly still contributing to free software by having many of its developers work on the kernel, kde and so forth and still delivering a distribution periodically. Does this bother you?
Are you one of those people that think that everyone should switch to the one true distribution, which happens to be whatever you are currently using right now?
There is strength in diversity.