Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 30th Jul 2008 01:12 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 1 'thornicrofti'. This beta includes the newest release of KDE 4, KDE 4.1 final, GNOME 2.23.5, Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.26 final. The new beta also switches to using splashy (rather than bootsplash) for boot and shutdown graphics, and adds synchronization support for Windows Mobile 2003 devices. As always, Mandriva reminds you not to use pre-releases in any critical situation; install them only on a test system or partition, or in a virtual machine. Additionally, they strongly discourage using this pre-release to upgrade from any earlier release of Mandriva Linux, as the transition process from KDE 3 to KDE 4 is not yet fully implemented and you are likely to end up with an unusable system. Please make sure to read the Errata and Release Notes, and file any bugs not covered in those pages on Bugzilla.
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Member since:2008-04-18
If you want to trim the fat it is very simple with Mandriva. Don't use the Live CD installer, use the the DVD (or 3 CD set) installer. That will give you the option to custom install. You can install only the core of Mandriva and add later the desktop environment with this command: "urpmi task-kde4-minimal". You can add other stuff with urpmi as you desire. Mandriva + KDE can be as lean or as fat as you want it to be.
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2005-12-31
I just recently installed the latest release and must say so far it looks pretty good. I haven't tried any Mandriva's since Mandrake 8, I think.
One problem I have and that's with all KDE distros, is to trim some of the fat out of KDE.