Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 01:47 UTC, submitted by AdamW
The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. This pre-release includes the all-new artwork for the 2008 Spring release, further improvements to the Mandriva software management tools, WPA-EAP support in the network configuration tools, KDE 3.5.9 and available 4.0.1, some new default applications in KDE and GNOME, and the latest pre-release of OpenOffice.org 2.4. See here for download information. And URPMI got support for rpm5.
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RE[7]: great desktop experience but..
by AdamW on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 22:50
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RE[8]: great desktop experience but..
by sbergman27 on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 23:36
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So...what are you doing posting argumentative stuff in a thread about a Mandriva pre-release?
That's a fair question. And you'll have to read up the thread a ways to see why I originally posted. Gireesh was kind enough to make some suggestions and I replied honestly, based upon my past experience with Mandrake. I originally happened onto this thread via the "recent conversations" panel, in which a post about the relative advantages and disadvantages of deb and rpm based distros caught my eye. Having used both extensively in both personal and professional situations, I felt I had something of value to add to that conversation.
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Thank you for the feedback. But Mandrake/Mandriva is not really on my radar anymore. Repeated poor experiences with distro QA and Mandrake Store, plus a general distaste for the current Mandriva management prevent Mandriva from appearing on my "Distros I care about" list, and likely will for a continued very long time.
Regarding the mixing of Debian and Ubuntu repos, the standard repos that come enabled in current a current Ubuntu release represent over 20,000 packages all by themselves.
Edited 2008-03-02 20:33 UTC