Two reviews of Mandriva One 2006. “ReviewLinux.Com takes a quick look at the new and free Mandriva One 2006 LiveCD. This review is full of pictures to show everyone the ease and use of this Linux distribution. This distribution is only one cd and perfect for anyone that maybe new to Linux.” MintLinux starts: “After Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core 5 and SUSE 10.1 were released in the first two quarters of this year, I started to wonder about Mandriva. Was there still any reason for people to use Mandriva over Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu? Had the distribution become outdated?”
Mandriva IS outated, unless you are a member of its club. I downloaded Mandriva ONE, and it is like a Mandriva 2006 live CD. It has 2.6.12 kernel, gnome 2.10, Firefox 1.0.6, and OpenOffice 1.1.5.
All other recently published distributions, are freely downloadable, and have a more up to date package selection.
Some years ago i was a Mandrake fan, but no more with Mandriva: i switched to Fedora as it is available for free without paying an euro, and you can download the ISO images the same day it is published.
You’ve got seerofsouls ( http://www.seerofsouls.com/rpm2006.html ) to update your Mandriva with latest software from community. How outdated is KDE 3.5.3 ???
Mandriva IS outated, unless you are a member of its club. I downloaded Mandriva ONE, and it is like a Mandriva 2006 live CD. It has 2.6.12 kernel, gnome 2.10, Firefox 1.0.6, and OpenOffice 1.1.5.
This is exactly what Mandriva One is. I’m writing this from a hard-disk installed Mandriva One, look:
$ cat /etc/mandriva-release
Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586
The upside: it’s a good idea to have a live CD equivalent of the main release, I miss having that with Debian. It’s easily installable from the live CD just as Ubuntu 6.06 is. It’s relatively compact, one program per task. Seems stable. It’s not that bad!
It’s just 2006 is getting a little long in the tooth now — releasing ‘One’ this long after the 2006, and maybe you’re expecting some fantastic cutting-edge Mandriva live CD distro; what you get is “Best of Autumn 2005” of the Free Software world.
On updated packages: I know you can update it using Thac or SeerOfSouls or Texstar or whoever is doing Mandriva packaging these days. I have nothing at all against them, but I’d rather not rely on third-party packagers who can (and do) disappear, give up to release their own distribution, get bored, have a baby, etc.
Some years ago i was a Mandrake fan, but no more with Mandriva: i switched to Fedora as it is available for free without paying an euro
I hear you, ex-Mandrake user here too, jumped to Debian around the 2005 release. The releases around 8.0-8.2 were Mandrake’s high point for me. 2006, and by association ‘One’, are unspectacular next to current releases from e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora — I don’t see what it offers the new Linux user (who it is pitched at) that the others don’t.
By the way folks, remember you can always do the Mandriva ‘netinstall’ on the day of release, no need to wait for ISOs.
I have installed and tried Mandriva 2006 and I am quite impressed by the quality of their installer as well as their multimedia support out of the box. But they need to update their packages to the more recent version. Also I tried installing NVIDIA propritery drivers but could not get the suitable drivers for the kernel version shipping with Mandriva.
New releases from various distributions are staggered throughout the year, as each one rolls out it’s new version the ones released before it seem gradually more outdated in comparison. When Mandriva rolls out it’s new release for this year all the distributions that released before it will seem outdated in comparison. But what’s a few months difference anyway? As long as the distribution works and has all it’s bug and security fixes there’s no problem unless you like using the bleeding edge untested software, in which case you should be running cooker in the case of Mandriva.
but their products and support and near-constant angling for cash left me a bit cold. I still have a place in my heart for the people that first gave me hope in what I now enjoy on a daily basis, but Mandriva simply has become an also-ran in a crowded and increasingly talented race.
Being one of the first distributions out this year Mandriva is going to look a little behind the latest crop of shiny linux distributions.
I wonder how much time people in the linux community have to keep swapping between the latest distribution for this or that update and the instability it causes.
For me or any laptop linux home user Mandriva is still a top notch distribution .. and most comparisons are hair splitting .. if you want to be involved in the cutting edge get involved in their cooker community program ..
it is a great complaint that distributions get old in just 6 months .. it shows the momentum in the oss community..
One release per year is enough imho. Those who consider 12 months old software outdated should get a real life. Really. Some people have first of all other things to do than constantly upgrading their apps (especially if your Linux box is not supposed to be a toy-box but a work-machine) and secondly, other Operating Systems are way older – and still nobody complains. Ever seen a “normal” Windows user complaining that his/her Windows computer is outdated?
Mandriva One is a Mandriva2006 Live-CD, so don’t expect to get something different than a very stable distro. Mandriva was once accused of shipping an unstable distro. Now they ship a stable distro and get flamed for not shipping an unstable distro. This is a crazy world.
Oh, and please don’t start a Windows vs. Linux flamewar now.
In my company I sometimes have to work with Windows XP.
It is really incredible that this outdated, bad, unusable desktop is still considered good enough by most people.
It is better tham CDE, but it is by far worse than either Gnome or KDE.
I am a extensive multitasker, and I usually have 6-10 Windows open. PER DESKTOP!!! I am using 4 virtual Desktops in KDE, so that leaves me with 24-40 Windows.
Imagine that under Windows, I would not be able to find anything within a decent amount of time.
All those Windows users who put up with that nightmare of a desktop simply don’t KNOW better. That is why you seldom hear complain someone.
I know both worlds, I know which one is better and which one is outdated.