Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Oct 2008 20:22 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and further improved support for working with mobile devices. For more details, see the Release Tour and the Release Notes. Get it at the download page, or go straight to the torrent list.
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sb56637
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2006-05-11

Ah! I know why your Debian installs extra packages like you described. Check this out:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2830909#po...

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jabbotts Member since:
2007-09-06

I'm a cli type and have been spoiled by apt-get on my Maemo. I'll have to give that forum thread a read over in detail a bit later.

(Now, I'm just curious why my post got negatived. Was my experience with urpmi and apt-get really off topic?)

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