Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Mar 2008 10:04 UTC, submitted by AdamW
As the latest Mandriva release, 2008 Spring, reaches release candidate stage, the What's Coming in Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring page on the Mandriva Wiki is available, providing a summary of all the major new features arriving in the forthcoming release, along with screenshots. New versions of KDE 3, KDE 4, GNOME and XFCE, Asus Eee PC compatibility, PulseAudio, improvements to the Mandriva configuration tools and some new applications all make the list.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Fedora has a policy of being on the absolute bleeding edge of everything, which is appropriate to the distribution it's trying to be. Mandriva isn't in quite the same situation as Fedora, and we try to take a more balanced approach. This is the same reason they are shipping KDE 4 as the default KDE in Fedora 9, and we are shipping KDE 3 as the default KDE. We could have shipped a Firefox 3 beta in 2008 Spring if we wanted to, for sure. We simply made a choice not to.
Member since:2005-07-07
Fedora has a policy of being on the absolute bleeding edge of everything, which is appropriate to the distribution it's trying to be. Mandriva isn't in quite the same situation as Fedora, and we try to take a more balanced approach. This is the same reason they are shipping KDE 4 as the default KDE in Fedora 9, and we are shipping KDE 3 as the default KDE. We could have shipped a Firefox 3 beta in 2008 Spring if we wanted to, for sure. We simply made a choice not to.
fair enough but how many people do you expect will use Mandriva2008.1 over fedora having KDE4.0.2 or 4.0.3 being the default, people wanna get used to KDE4 before 4.1 gets out, which makes me ask another Question, since fedora9 wil ship 4.0.x as default an when 4.1 is out you will be able to install 4.1 over 4.0.x why didnt Mandriva opt to do it that way? now people will have to get Mandriva2009 for that,
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2005-07-07
if its good enough for fedora to include a beta or RC of Firefox3 at final time of the fedora9 final an they update ff3 to the final for everyone, why cant Mandriva? surely a final version can be pushed through to the updates . just seems like Mandriva is still lacking behind, an i have to ask myself why i dont use Mandriva, maybe Mandriva needs a longer testing schedule to get these updates in,
Edited 2008-03-04 23:29 UTC