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Mandriva Linux 2006 Released
mhrivnak writes "Today, Mandriva Linux 2006 was released to Club members, and the tree will be publicly available on October 13. New features include the Kat Desktop Search Environment, an interactive firewall, and enhanced wifi support with Mandriva being the only Linux distribution certified for Centrino hardware. The integration of technology from Conectiva and Lycoris has led to improved installation (in 40+ languages), better package management, and quicker boot time."
After all, it is just Linux, so it should be covered by the GPL. Any "club members" who want to can upload a torrent.
Or is there some aspects of the system that aren't GPL and can't be uploaded?
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Its too soon. This version of Mandriva still has Mozilla FireFox 1.0.6, with backported patches. I would have waited until Christmas. I would have waited to refine some more. I think they moved too fast on this. I think that major work should have been done on Heimdal Kerberos Support. Because better LDAP backend support for Kerberos is critical to doing thinngs like Linux's "Almost but not quite" Active Directory.
I'd love it to just work out of the box.
You are barking at the wrong tree. Blame the HW vendors...
Linspire people said they also were centrino certified, the even sell laptops with Linspire on in.
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But is everything part of this distribution GNU? Or does it have apache?
RMS is actually quite wrong about it. He just want to gain attention by saying it should be called GNU/Linux Linux is the kernel the Operating system is actually different from each version. I think in order to have an Operating System called GNU Linux all the parts need to be GNU not just some of the parts. RMS needs an other hobbie something that will help him release some of the stress in his life, maybe he should take voice lessons or something, or skiing. If not having you license as part of a name really makes you annoyed you should reconsider your life.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
A lot of the artwork has changed to a much more professional look than 2005LE (You will know what I'm talking about if you installed/used 2005LE).
I'm using the powerpack since I'm a silver club member and I volunteered to be an early seeder so I got it early, and I couldn't be happier. If you want a linux distro that Just Works, try it out some time.
"Redundant" would be my pick, as I can't remember a distro article in recent memory that didn't have at least one post raising the same old issue as yours.
The perception of some weird kind of "rift" between Ubuntu and Debian is way overblown. Read this for more information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth Suffice to say that Ubuntu obviously makes excellent use of Debian, and also contributes plenty back.
Woo - another desktop. Won't that be grand! As for innovation, check out the plans for KDE 4. Also, if you're not going to whine and offer up interesting and new ideas rather than vauge accusations of glitchiness, I can think of no reason at all why distros maintainers (who, incidentally, are not responsible for inventing brand new desktops) would wish to "amaze" you.
Very well - if it were up to you, *which* distro would you choose to dictate that people focus on? If you say "SUSE", ten people will say "Mandriva". If you say "Mandriva", ten people will say "Ubuntu". If you say "start a brand new one from scratch" - well, why do you think there are 200 distros already available? Fact is, rallying all developers across the globe - many of which contribute purely voluntarily, remember - to One United Cause is an impossible dream. The only thing we can do is let nature take its course.
If it so happens that a handful of distros attain such a degree of superiority that developers drop their tools and flock to work on it, then great. If it simply transpires that the constant flow of code causes all distros to become completely alike in terms of capabilities, then that's fine, too - somewhat wasteful of resources, yes, but there's nothing you can do about it, certainly not by posting Tired Old Arguments Against Fragmentation v2110 on slashdot.
Finally, a word about distros themselves. Here's my theory - distros aren't important, or at the very least, they are far less important than the body of open-source software available is. The function of a distro is to package a bunch of code together into a whole for consumption by the end-user who has no time to do this for themselves, and to improve the end-user experience as much as is possible - after all, a distro that fails to do the latter will quickly descend into irrelevancy, at which point it ceases to be either a "confusing" additional choice, nor a waste of significant man-power. This improvement often comes from improving the desktop environments, or productivity software offered. Here's the crucial point - all of these types of improvements can (and are) adopted by other distros. For example, Novell have put a lot of work and effort into Beagle, and this work can be and is harnessed by other distros. Put like this:
The fragmentation of distros, and really the distross themselves, are almost wholly irrelevant, as each produces code th
No no no. The operating system is more than just the kernel, but it does not encompass everything in the distro. In particular, glibc is a crucial part of the OS. That said, "Linux" has come to mean any Linux-based OS, so RMS will just have to deal.
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Why is everybody obessed with boot/shutdown times on Linux boxes? Thought the whole point of Linux was to avoid reboots.
This guy is way out there
The operating system is more than just the kernel
The funny thing is Andrew Tanenbaum doesn't agree with you (or Stallman).
Main difference between the BSD license and the GPL license: one is from California and the other is from Massachusetts
Ach, I've forgotten my login. I'm AdamWill. Disclaimer - I work for MDV.
Sorry, but this is just so horribly wrong and misguided I had to step in. RPM does _not_ only work with file-based dependencies, and DEB does _not_ only work with package-based dependencies. You can use either type of dependency on both systems. RPM allows perfectly well for virtual provides (which is what you're talking about, virtual packages is something different) - for instance, on MDV 2006, mailservers that provide the de facto standard sendmail setup all provide sendmail-command, so you can install whichever server you prefer. We also have virtual packages properly speaking - for e.g. the package gnome2 is an empty package which pulls in a full GNOME desktop via dependencies.
"both Debian and Gentoo feature enormous package repositories including pretty much the whole of Open Source; it's like comparing a few apples to several kilos of oranges."
No, it's not - it's like comparing 11,000 oranges to 17,000. MDV has about 11k packages, and covers a heck of a _lot_ of open source. It's not quite as many as Debian, but it's still in the same ballpark, and close enough to make a valid comparison between urpmi, smart and apt.
Oh, and urpmi / rpmdrake and smart will both handle any circular dependencies for you.
Thanks for playing.
It seems like Mandriva have put out a fine operating system, but as an admin, it sucks to not have any kind of documentation or bug support. For example, both Debian and FreeBSD have extensive documentation easily accessable from their web sites. Where's the equivelant for Mandriva? Same goes with bug reporting; I'm not going to track down the links, but it's pretty trivial to submit bug reports for any of Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, even RedHat, but I looked all up and down Mandriva's site and didn't see any kind of bug tracking system, not even a mailto: field.
So, like I said, as an IT admin, I'm not going to support an OS that isn't going to support me.
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