Mandriva One 2006 Beta 2 (an installable live CD) has been released. “The second beta of Mandriva Linux One 2006, our new installable live CD, is now available from most public mirror sites. This fixes a range of issues from the first beta.” Download locations.
Linux distros are so 1990s…..
I propose the new “Network” distro
1) Linux core (common)
2) Redhat/Debian/SuSE/Mandrake style ADMIN tools
3) KDE or Gnome Desktop
4) RPMs or DEBs
5) Get the latests bits directly from the developer’s website.
we’re on to beta 3 already
. quick fix for a common kernel panic on machines with multiple optical drives. so you’ll find beta 3 on the mirrors, not 2.
The CEO admitted that Ubuntu is killing them. The Linux desktop experiment is over. Everybody is moving to Vista and OSX.
> Everybody is moving to Vista and OSX.
If Mandrake (I refuse to call it Mandriva) dies, it’s now a two horse race between Redhat and Ubuntu – Novell/Linspire/Xandros – thank you for playing, collect your door prizes and go home.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a RedHat/Novell merger at some point in the not too distant future.
That’s really the only hope. All these retarded little distros like Man Diva, Linspire, Xandros only help to hurt desktop Linux.
It’s 2006 and desktop linux still hasn’t poked it’s head above ground. But back in 2000 all we heard was zealots screaming “Year of the linux desktop!”
Oh well, they’ll never get it. All you can do is laugh at them.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a RedHat/Novell merger at some point in the not too distant future.
That’s really the only hope. All these retarded little distros like Man Diva, Linspire, Xandros only help to hurt desktop Linux.
Yes, things like choice and freedom are holding back the linux desktop. We need a strong company to emerge, strongarm the smaller distros out of business, reject any concept of community, dictate exactly how development must proceed and exactly what standards the industry should follow and implement, and naturally mandate some sort of annual subscription fee to ensure the success of free software. Only then will people be saved from Microsoft’s monopoly and lock-in.
Riiiiight.
You realize that you’re actually proposing an RH/Novell merger as the only thing that will save the industry from three “retarded” little distros that are successful enough that people actually choose to pay for them in this world of free downloads? Exactly how do you define success? Linux doesn’t count until everyone is using it… whether they want to or not?
Let’s see if elsewhere covered all of the standard, mind-numbed, zealot talking points.
Yes, things like choice and freedom are holding back the linux desktop.
Check. Babble something about choice and freedom and you suddenly have a point. That’s #1 standard talking point. Of course these dimwits think source code and lots of distros equal choice and freedom. Of course Novell and RedHat merging wouldn’t take away choice or freedom, but this doesn’t stop these mental midgets from drooling out that line every time.
We need a strong company to emerge, strongarm the smaller distros out of business
Evil corporation rant. Check.
reject any concept of community,
Commmuunnnniiiittttyyyyy…check!
dictate exactly how development must proceed and exactly what standards the industry should follow and implement, and naturally mandate some sort of annual subscription fee to ensure the success of free software
Another demented paranoid delusion about freedom being taken away or something. Check
Only then will people be saved from Microsoft’s monopoly and lock-in.
Obligatory Microsoft and lock-in post. Check.
There you have it folks. Elsewhere is just another mind-numbed robot that is incapable of independent thought and just parrots what he’s been told to think.
Thanks for the laugh – as always.
Ah, I’m glad the art of debate is alive and well. Quoting your opponent’s arguments and then saying ‘check’ sarcastically has been considered a devastatingly effective method since the days of Socrates, good to see the old traditions carried on.
Debating with these zombies is like debating with a cat. They are incapable of independent thought, much less debating.
“Freedom….choice….freedom…choice…freedom…freedom…evil corporation…lockin…evil microsoft…lockin…freedom…freedom…freedom…choice…freedom.”
barkley, you sir, are a retard.
you come on here all the time with the same posts.
does someone copy and paste them for you little man ?
come on then… tell us what you use, and how you think it is better than linux.
tell us the apps you use on your os
and better still
show us receipts for the purchases of all your software.
But the funny thing is, there is nothing you can do to stop me, you little nazi Raver31
there is nothing you can do to stop me
Yes there is! I just return to browsing at the default cutoff level of -1 rather than my current -5. You have convinced me that this would be a good thing to do.
Did anybody test the cd instead of flaming it?
tuxmachine did test the live cd. See
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/5372
barkley, I know you’re just trolling because you’re bored or something, but I’m bored too so I’ll bite. If the Linux world should do as you wish and kill the community, kill off all projects but one in every cathegory, stop caring “about this freedom nonsense”, and pretty much turn itself into Microsoft #2, why would anyone use it? The reason people use and support free software is because it aims to be very different from proprietairy software, not because it aims to be a Windows clone.
… why all these people complains about the community aspect of the Linux platform. There wouldn’t be a Linux platform if the community wasn’t in place since the community itself wrote the majority of the software available to it. RedHats and the Novells are only packaging what’s freely available and doing their best to tighten up the package in order to make it attractive/useful for the ordinary and the not-so-ordinary computer user.
Think about it for a second: if we kill the community in order to let a “healthy” business model emerge from this, who’ll maintain the Linux kernel, XFCE, X-Chat and K3B for instance? RedHat? Novell? Another huge corporation?
Thanks, but no thanks… Things are going great right now. No need to change anything.
RedHat and Novell and others pay a lot of people to work on Linux and that does not just include packaging things up into distros. They do some heavy development in GNOME, the kernel and glibc, for example. Without these companies, Linux would not be where it is today.
RedHat and Novell and others pay a lot of people to work on Linux and that does not just include packaging things up into distros. They do some heavy development in GNOME, the kernel and glibc, for example. Without these companies, Linux would not be where it is today.
True, but that’s only a small subset of the software available to the Linux platform. KDE is arguably superior to GNOME (from a technical standpoint) even with all that corporate support that GNOME has backing it right now. And even if GNOME didn’t have it, I’m sure that somebody else would step up and do whatever it takes to get it to the same level that it enjoys today.
The Debian project accounts for over 16000 packages on its repositories and I would be astounded if these companies touch at least 2000 of them. CUPS is another vital component of the Linux desktop and I don’t see RH nor Novell helping it either.
Your point would carry more weight if the presence of these heavyweight players somehow gave an incentive to the ISV and hardware vendors to put effort on supporting Linux on their products, but as everybody knows, this is not happening (and I don’t see it happening anytime soon, this time because of one of the Linux drawbacks: the lack of stable ABI).
Please note that I’m not against these companies participating on the process of the development of the platform. I’m thankful for the investment that RH, Novell, IBM, Sun and others have put on Linux to make it evolve to what it is today. The more, the merrier.
What I refuse is the idea that the community behind Linux should be precluded from participating, since without them, there wouldn’t be a base for those companies to work upon.
Edited 2006-03-05 09:29
An installable live CD that contains an updated version of xorg would be handy to avoid the broken version that shipped with Mandriva Linux 2006.
I was unable to get X to work on a PC containing a GeForce 2 MX graphics chipset using the nv driver. The problem was (eventually) fixed by the first Mandriva Linux 2006 xorg update.
I’ve encountered other users new Linux and Mandriva that abandoned it after finding they couldn’t boot to a graphical desktop.
Now it is on beta 3. You can download it from
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/…
See here
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/…
the correct iso image for your language.