Submitted by Mandriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. Download the hybrid live/install CD One or the purely free/open source Free. Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring includes the latest software (KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0) and several new features: Metisse; WengoPhone; Google desktop applications like Picasa and Earth; updates and improvements to many of the Mandriva configuration tools and the brand new drakvirt for configuring virtualization; and a brand new desktop theme. For more information see the Spring product page and the Wiki page, where you can find download and installation instructions, the Release Tour, the Release Notes and the Errata.
The download pages – http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/mandrivaone and http://www.mandriva.com/en/download/free – are currently down. We’re sorry. You can get the ISOs from any mirror in the /official/iso/2007.1 directory. List of mirrors is here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors
direct link to torrents:
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/
What a sweet release! Nice job from Mandriva.
Download pages are back up.
When going to the download page, what’s all this trial talk?
Is that just a demo?
Anyway, I think I’ll pass, that big “join the club” add right on that page is a major turn off too.
Man, I need to shoot whoever keeps putting ‘trial’ in there.
No. It’s a full, fully functional distribution. It doesn’t expire, it’s not crippled in any way. The only real difference with the commercial editions is they include some commercial software. There are a lot of people out there who use Free as their OS of choice.
And, well, excuse us for trying to make a living, but we do need to eat.
[edit: grammar fix]
Edited 2007-04-18 04:37
Yes, the Free version is not crippled or trial in any way. I use “free” and it works extremely well on my hardware. A very polished release and perhaps the best and most stable release they ever made (and I have tested lots(!) of their releases over the years). Two thumbs up from my side.
2007.1 lives now happily next to my RHEL/Startcom system.
Bla,bla,bla,bla.
Where did I hear that before?
You and everyone else on the planet.
But most people don’t whine about it.
And ad couple more versions of Mandriva and you’ll be like Vista.
What will Mandriva Ultimate cost? $599?
And if I want to run one of the servers, like let’s say Apache, then I suppose I have to buy the Powerpack+ at 179 euro?
Mandriva really cast a dark shadow over my somewhat pleasant memories of Mandrake which was the distro I started my Linux life with.
Segregating users into Club members and non-members and commercializing the distro so much was a really bad move.
Guess what a lot of the club non-members did? We moved to different distros and never looked back.
Find some other suckers for you club.
Go ahead and visit http://www.happyassassin.net/
that’s running on 2007.1 Free.
Apache is, of course, in the public repositories. *Every* free / open source package in Mandriva is in the public repositories. This has always been the case whatever we happened to be called at the time. There have always been commercial and free editions of Mandriva / Mandrake, and the difference has always been just that the commercial editions come with manuals, support and commercial packages, and include more of the free packages on the discs (but the rest are always available from the public mirrors). I don’t understand where you’re drawing any kind of distinction between Mandrake and Mandriva. There was absolutely no change in this regard.
ncftp …586/media/main/release > pwd
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/offic…
ncftp …586/media/main/release > ls apache*
apache-base-2.2.4-6mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-conf-2.2.4-4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-devel-2.2.4-6mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
apache-doc-2.2.4-3mdv2007.1.noarch.rpm
(etc)
adding public Internet repositories to an install is very easy and documented here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removin…
I don’t see where I’m whining about anything. On the page in question you can download a complete, fully functional operating system for the huge price of *nothing*. In return you have to suffer the agony of seeing an advert for a service. We’re very sorry for your pain.
Will there be a PPC version?
not officially, we don’t do official PPC releases any more. volunteers still maintain Cooker PPC, but they haven’t had the manpower to do an actual release for a while, don’t think they will for this but you never know.
AdamW – Ok, thanks for the information!
What is the exact diference between Mandriva One and Mandriva Free? I ask this because they both appear “Free to download” on the site. Is proprietary software included in M-1?
One is a hybrid live / install CD, Free is a traditional installer-based system.
And yes, for 2007.1, One includes some proprietary stuff (mostly drivers), while Free doesn’t.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I’ll give Mandriva One a spin once it finishes downloading. It looks great indeed
Edited 2007-04-18 09:43
In Mandriva One, you will find proprietary drivers (graphic cards, wifi)
In mandriva free, if you want proprietary drivers (eg: ati or nvidia) you may simply add the new media source : non-free available for everyone (free of charge)
there is still software for club members only : like Adobe reader (you’ll have to install it manually if you want it without giving money)
regards,
glyj
I remember the last Mandriva One release has been splited
into (live) CDs of different languages. But this time I see one one CD, it is English only?
(Because I am Chinese, without the Input Method Editor, the live CD (I only use Mandrive One as a live CD)is somehow useless.
Uhmm, where’s the mini CD? I used to install datacenter servers with it..
In the public ftp mirrors you may find the mini iso in two flavours:
i586:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/…
x86-64:
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/…
regards,
glyj
note: if the mirror is overloaded, try an other one. You’ll find a list on the mandriva website.
Edited 2007-04-18 12:59
Nope, I’m talkning about smth like this:
ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/i…
I dont need a net install.
CDs iso will soon be added.
There is a poll now in the forum to ask if a x86_64 is necessary or not…
http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=323769#323769
regards,
glyj
The Netherlands seems to be missing from the country list and I am asked to enter a username and password booting the X86_64 Gnome Live cd which I can’t find anywhere.
I’m downloading the Free iso right now. But I’m wondering, coming from ubuntu, is there anything like automatix for Mandriva?
Use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow instructions to add PLF-Free and PLF-NonFree and Official Non-Free repos! If you do this you won’t need automatix because everything you might want will be in rpmdrake.
thanks for the info, I’ll definitely look into this once it’s downloaded (which is pretty slow BTW) and installed.
I might buy Mandriva Discovery but only for the legal DVD player and Cedega. I’ll then figure out a way to get them on my Fedora install.
a while ago, mandriva dropped out of sight and nobody cared about them. somehow, they’re back in sight, even though i can’t find anyone who cares – there must be somebody, since their ranking on distrowatch is back up
I just downloaded the KDE One live CD, and and it appears that CUPS is not installed by default on the installed system or the live CD. Can anyone else confirm this? I did check my md5 sum and all that.
Edited 2007-04-19 03:34
it’s in the release notes.
The printers aren’t configured during installation any more. You have to do it afterwards.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2007.1/Notes
regards
glyj
>>it’s in the release notes.
The printers aren’t configured during installation any more. You have to do it afterwards.
>>
Thanks. But aren’t they just saying that it doesn’t launch a printer config wizard during installation? That’s fine with me, but the problem I’m reporting is that printing capabilities do not seem to exist on MDV 2007.1 KDE One. Once the desktop loads, it automatically says “Installing packages” then pops up some warning message that CUPS can not be installed. Then when I go to configure a printer in the control center, the config utility just hangs.
After downlaoding the free version via bittorrent, which was pretty slow, I ended up with a non iso9660 file according to K3B, but I could burn it with k3b, and the checksum was ok, but it in the end it does not boot at all, not in Qemu too. I do not know how to mount the dvd. What filessytem is this iso, I don’t know.
I think I’ll switch to the new Kubuntu which is coming soon.