Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Dec 2005 16:31 UTC, submitted by test
"Mandriva Linux 2006, released last month, feels very much like a natural evolution of earlier Mandrake releases - in both good and bad ways. As I tested the PowerPack edition, I was disappointed to find many of the same rough edges that drove me away from Mandrake still present in this new incarnation."
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My own experience is to make Mandriva installable livecd's with mklivecd, shape them the way I want and then install. It is easy to have either the current stable repositories or change to cooker for up-to-date packages, when all is the way I want I run mklivecd and burn iso. It is magic and I'm not sure why others are not on to this.
Yep, agreed - and similarly, Mandriva makes an excellent "minimal" custom install - I've got a Mandriva system that only took up around 500 mb on install - that consisted of Fluxbox, Eterm, Firefox, VIM, NEdit Drakconf and relatively little else (in terms of well known apps) - Mandriva can be as cool/minimal/"technical" as the user wants - the package selection section of the Mandriva install makes it very easy to create your own fine-tuned and tailored OS setup - well worth exploring.