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Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 released
AdamWill writes "Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring RC3 "Beijing" is now available. Featuring the most comprehensive support for 3D desktop technologies, the latest versions of KDE, GNOME, Mozilla Firefox and others, a beautiful new theme and enhancements and refinements to the comprehensive suite of Mandriva configuration utilities, Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring is the best Mandriva Linux release yet. Beijing features fixes to all major bugs in previous betas and release candidates, the final version of GNOME 2.18, and the full feature set intended for the final release. Both traditional installer-based Free editions and combined live / install CD One editions are available. Beijing is available from all Mandriva mirror sites in the /devel/iso/2007.1 directory. Please consult the release notes for more information."
Is this new? Is it based on Ubuntu?
Is 3D desktop support actually good this time? Although it my be because i'm running with an ATI video card, I found that the 3D desktop support was terrible in the original Mandriva 2007. Frequent crashes where a major problem. I don't really need a 3D desktop, so I turned it off, but it sure would be nice to have a 3D desktop that works.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
It's hard to imagine people are always confusing linux and OSS with communist philosophies when we're naming our releases Beijing. Why just just start naming them Trotsky, Stalin, marx and Lennin?
That is, I downloaded Mandriva Free 2007 over the weekend.
so far, I really like it.
I am not sure I got the RC3 though. It does not have the drivers for my Lexmark 3in1 X5150 as Lexmark can't be bothered to provide such...
DRI AND OpenGL on dualhead CRTs and Xorg 7 AND AIGLX to boot
:(
Now could someone please make an RPM of Classic Quake? The last RPM (not from Mandrake or Mandriva tho) doesn't play with sound
That was our last stable release. It's good too. :) This is the soon-to-be-released new release, 2007 Spring (AKA 2007.1).
It WAS good - eventually. Unfortunately it destroyed my 2006 when I upgraded shortly after it was released (my mistake, I know - never upgrade until the bugs are cleaned up), so I switched to Kubuntu.
Try not to screw up this time and I might switch back since Mandriva is superior to Kubuntu in my view.
But not until three months have gone by and the most egregious bugs have been removed.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
...they're planning to release the final this month. Like Debian Etch. ;)
I use Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. I advocate Free Software at my school. I am a PROUD GEEK!
I think this has to be said, and I don't have a better place to say it - Mandriva is the best distro I have used. It may possibly be the only distribution of Linux that a power user can install and enjoy without worrying about low-level details and configuration.
I used Mandrake 7.0 - 9.0 on an old server at home for various Linux hackery. When I saw Mandrake 9.0, I said to myself, "I am switching my desktop to Linux at 10.0," and that's what I did, and I haven't looked back.
Mandriva lets you run Gnome or KDE right out of the box. Its configuration utilities let you do almost anything with ease. It may have stability issues once in awhile if you run out of their development 'cooker' branch, but it's gotten a ton better in the past few years.
With the PLF repository, you get all of the 'banned' functionality that's not packaged with Mandriva (windows codecs, etc).
Some user-friendly distributions are severely limited when you want to go beyond the basics. They don't have up-to-date development RPMs or don't have utilities that support advanced configuration.
If only Mandriva weren't so expensive I might actually get the commercial version. Honestly, the improvements from version to version have been astounding.
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.