Submitted by “MandrivaLinux will shortly introduce a new round of releases for its Corporate Server, Corporate Desktop, and PowerPack Edition GNU/Linux distributions. While preparing to review these operating systems I sent some interview questions to Mandriva’s CEO, Francois Bancilhon.”
Just like with Linspire, Mandriva getting Linux pre-installed in PCs is a huge gain for desktop Linux.
In the Linspire thread, I mentioned Linspire and PCLinuxOS as my fav desktop Linux distros. Add Mandriva to that.
All of these distros are going for total ease of use, ease of installation, stellar hd detection, easy GUI configuration, attention to detail, super easy software installation (Linspire CNR, PCLinuxOS apt4rpm & Synaptic, Mandriva urpmi & RPMDrake), and a beautiful, modern look-n-feel.
PCLinuxOS apt4rpm & Synaptic
That’s actually Conectiva’s technology =P
“That’s actually Conectiva’s technology =P”
The beauty of open source – everyone can use other’s work, and build upon it.
PCLinuxOS uses apt4rpm beautifully. And it’s a wonder to me why other RPM based distros don’t use it as the primary package manager. Fedora uses Yum, which is pretty good, but I find apt4rpm to work much better. Also, Synaptic is much better than any of the Yum GUI front ends.
Also, Mandriva (which Connectiva is now a part of), defaults to urpmi – another good RPM package handler/dependency resolver. Then RPMDrake is really good.
But I still find apt4rpm with Synaptic, on PCLinuxOS, to be the best of the lot.
The beauty of open source – everyone can use other’s work, and build upon it.
yup .. yet still … credit should go where credit is due …
But I still find apt4rpm with Synaptic, …, to be the best of the lot.
And so do I ..
BTW, is PClinuxOS using “bm” (build manager) to create it’s rpm?
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“BTW, is PClinuxOS using “bm” (build manager) to create it’s rpm?”
Dunno. That’s probably a question to ask of Texstar over at the PCLinuxOS forums.
“In Brasil, right now we are selling in the order of 30,000 Mandriva machine per month, which is a sizable portion of the PC market there.”
Not bad. He is right that the emerging markets are the big chance for Linux machines and that those markets can force a change on the US and european market, too. Or at least: create some pressure for more cross-compatibility.
I like the fact that South America is planning more and more with Linux solutions.
Blag GNU/Linux has apt4rpm installed by default. It is, however, a Fedora based distro, so Pup and Pirut come along as well.