Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Sep 2007 18:11 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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).
Thread beginning with comment 269282
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
fepede
Member since:
2005-11-14

What else do you contribute to the discussion?

Nothing else, because you completely move the point elsewhere from where my post was.


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.


The logic of my post was to clear to everyone, except to you. The logic was: "I think mandriva is loosing attention from media and from user".

Yet I am tired of people pissing on somebody else's work, which is what your implicit question about mind-share really was.

Again, acting like a fanboy (or zealot, if you prefer).

I wasn't pissing the work of anyone. Saying that mandriva is loosing mindshare is not the same of saying that their work is a shit.


("Do others agree?")for some form of validation.


Yes, I was searching for validation.
I know you think you know the ONLY TRUTH, well, I don't.

Since the popularity of a Linux distro is not an easy thing to estimate, i asked other OSnews reader if they are getting to the same conclusion i did.

That said, learn to read or learn some logic before replying to my posts again. Maybe you'll get to reply something related to what i write.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 1

porcel Member since:
2006-01-28

It is laughable to hear someone as incongruent as you tell others to "learn to read". It is even more hilarious that you do so with the spelling of a three-year old.

Have you actually read what you wrote? And no, your question wasn't an honest inquiry. It was a facetious question used as a rhetorical device with the only aim of discrediting the hard work of the people that work on Mandriva.

Do you honestly believe that you are going to get anything resembling an statistically valid or meaninful response at a place like OSNews?

Edited 2007-09-06 17:05

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2

fepede Member since:
2005-11-14

It is even more hilarious that you do so with the spelling of a three-year old.

Did you know that there are people whose native language is not English?

Well, English is not my native language, so, my spelling is not perfect! Wow, thank you for that great discovery! I guess that your Italian is much better than my English...

Do you honestly believe that you are going to get anything resembling an statistically valid or meaninful response at a place like OSNews?

Listen, re-read all my previous post, and find a place where I mentioned, even in indirect mode, the concept of "statistic".

I express an OPINION and I was asking for other people's OPINION. If you don't know the difference, that's not my fault.

You are still putting words in my mouth that i've never said.

I'm sad that mandriva is not on 99% of the desktop.
I'm sad that Ubuntu is much more used and relevant these days.
I'm sad that Redhat is driving the linux market.

But saying that, doesn't mean that I'm shitting on mandriva people's work.

Stop acting like a 13 years old child, please.

Reply Parent Bookmark Score: 2