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Mandriva Linux 2006 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hot-off-the-burners dept.

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."

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  1. Mandriva 2006 on Mini ITX? by deno · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm currently downloading the M2006, and I wonder how will it work with SP8000 mini-ITX motherboard.

    It took me a while to decide upon actually buying such a slow system, but I presume it will be fast enough for a job at hand, which is: "quietly sit in my living room, act as a web, DynDNS, login and file server for my local network, and do the multimedia stuff when needed (mp3, TV, DVDs and DivX).

    The problem is that VIA doesn't really play nicely with Linux, and one had to do quite a lot of work on his own in the past before getting a reasonably well working system. Wonder how much work has been done in this direction (if any) by Mandriva folks since 2005LE?

    1. Re:Mandriva 2006 on Mini ITX? by imr · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well, there is a lot done by via toward linux and open source.
      More than other at least.

      There are drivers that are released, some are even free and concern their graphic adapters.
      I think this is part of one of their strategy which is to take a big part of the asian market where there is a demand for low cost low end solutions.
      They are also very interrested in low energy solutions for the same reasons.

      I kinda think they are wiser than some other who rely on selling high end more power hungry closed solutions in a world where oil price and therefore electricity prices are going to rise.

      I go weekly there:
      http://www.viaarena.com/
      to find infos about this very interresting company. They even have tutorials for installing their new drivers on Mandriva and Fedora over there.

      Nope, I don't have shares or anything.

  2. Re:who comes up with this names? by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You might mock them, but there are companies whose sole job is to pick out names for stuff.
    Naming Products Is No Game

    Coming up with catchy product names is a lot harder than the layman might imagine, especially in this Global Age, when a word that might inspire admiration in one country can just as easily inspire red faces or unintended guffaws in another
    --
    [Fuck Beta]
    o0t!