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:2006-11-17
Have you tryed 2008 or 2007.1?
Anyway, I don't think Mandriva has lost mind share.
The *BIG* media didn't pay attention to Mandrake then and they don't do now. Actually they don't pay much attention to GNU or linux at all.
When I watch CNN, I don't expect to see this release on the news.
Relatively speacking, Ubuntu and Red Hat get much more attention from small media, that's right, and linux in general get more attention. But that is quite a different thing. Mandriva didn't get less attention as a result. I hear as much (or as few) about Mandriva as I heard about Mandrake : some articles in tech mags, some offer a free CD and OS News talk about it when there are new releases.
Ubuntu and Red Hat got big but they didn't got it at the expense of Mandrake/Mandriva but in addition to on different markets. Ubuntu attracts new users who didn't try linux before thanks to its shipit program and a big budget. Red Hat is in big corp business. You hear about them both in financial news and tech news, but we don't hear much about Red Hat in desktoplinux news.
Dell's adopting Ubuntu is good for Ubuntu but it's not bad for Mandriva. I'll buy a Dell and install Mandriva as I did before, except I won't have to pay for Windows this time 
Everybody is happy. I can't wait to test this new release.
Edited 2007-09-06 13:21
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2005-11-14
Have you tried it?
yes, i did it several times, since the first Mandrake release.
I use it as my main desktop because I care for look and it's far from irrelevant.
Well, beside the fact that I personally don't like it, I'm sure it has its strength.
But the question I posed was different: it seems to me that it is getting less and less attention from media (especially from the non-tech ones) against, just say, ubuntu and redhat.