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Mandriva 2007 Released
moyoto writes, "Mandriva has announced today the immediate availability of Mandriva Linux 2007. This new version includes the latest Gnome 2.16 and KDE 3.5.4, as well as a 3D desktop with both AIGLX and Xgl technologies. You can download Mandriva 2007 in one of the several free versions available with bittorrent, or buy one of the commercial packs. You can easily test the new 3D Desktop with one of the 16 Live/Install CDs, Gnome- or KDE-based, available in more than 70 different languages." The distro features a new theme named Ia Ora ("hello" in French Polynesian).
A new Slackware and a new Mandriva! What a time to be alive!
Badass Resumes
Hmm, let me know how Ubuntu is doing with its easy 3D desktop configuration wizard that allows to pick either AIGLX or Xgl depending on what your hardware supports. How's their SMB, NFS and WebDAV mount wizards? Their graphical VPN configuration tool? Their FTP, web, mail, DNS, SMB, NFS, and proxy server configuration wizards? autofs and ldap configuration tools? Their redundant firewall configuration tool? How's their internationalization going, is Ubuntu available in over 70 languages yet? Yeah, no reason to use anything but Ubuntu, obviously. Feel free to let me know what apt does that urpmi doesn't, too. And if apt was the winner of the Linux desktop 'wars', why didn't Debian win sometime in 1999?
Since the site is slow to respond, here are the download links for the 3CD version for i586 and x86_64, these are bit torrents . . .
- 2007-CD.i586.torrent
- 2007-CD.x86_64.torrent
- 2007-DVD.torrent
i586
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free
x86_64
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free
dual architecture DVD
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http://qa.mandriva.com/torrent/2007/mandriva-free