Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 18:03 UTC, submitted by visconde_de_sabugosa
The boys and girls in the Mandriva team have released Mandriva Linux 2010.0. This new Mandriva release obviously brings the latest and greatest from the open source and Linux communities, including the latest KDE and GNOME releases. Among other things, boot time has been a priority.
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Mandriva 2009 Spring is the nicest distro I've yet tried on my Eee 701. Using KDE4 it crawled horribly until a stuck in a 2GB stick of ram, which was very cheap. Now it works pretty nicely, even with compositing switched on. Flash playback is a bit slow but I'm blaming that on Adobe to a degree.
I also prefer their KDE4 implementation to my Kubuntu's, although in fairness my Kubuntu machine is very hacked-about whereas the Mandriva install is fresh. PulseAudio seems to behave itself too!
I'll be really interested to see Mandriva's 2010 release. I expect I'll put it on my netbook - the kernel mode setting and boot time improvements will be particularly relevant there. What has so far put me off running it on the desktop is that the package selection seems a bit small (or at least to have some surprising omissions - where is nethack!? Falcons Eye isn't a substitute for the nasty graphics of nethack/xnethack!)