Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 5th Aug 2008 19:14 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Jack Wallen of TechRepublic tried the Mandriva 2008 Spring and his verdict is "Mandriva Spring 2008 Live CD better than most other distributions fully installed." He claims that "This is, without a doubt, the finest release of any Linux distribution I have ever experienced in my 10+ years of using Linux."
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"I believe that the parent poster meant that no installer on this Earth should EVER require such amount of resources to perform a freaking install(!)"
The problem is that he just plucked the number out of the air. Mandriva One certainly doesn't need 1GB to boot (and hence install) - I think we cite 256MB but I wouldn't be surprised if it worked in 128MB or 192MB. I don't think any other live CD installer needs anything like 1GB either - I'd expect them all to have requirements similar to ours. Our old-skool installer needs I think 96MB minimum these days (the limit is the size of the installer application itself, which has to be loaded entirely into memory - we used to be able to get by with 64MB, but it's kinda grown since then).
Edited 2008-08-06 15:45 UTC