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Mandriva Linux 2008 RC 1 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the marching-on dept.

AdamWill writes "The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, is now available. The release notes are also available via the wiki. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate), and the detailed technical specifications are also available. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live / install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being release at the same time as the other editions)."

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  1. RC is the new pre-alpha? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate)

    How does that work?

    1. Re:RC is the new pre-alpha? by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, I don't get it either.

      Release cycles have changed a lot in the last 10 years or so. With the advent of iterative software development cycles, you can often times get betas that are not feature complete (the idea is to test the iteration cycles that are complete) but a release candidate should be feature complete most definitely.

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  2. Re:Hopefully by myowntrueself · · Score: 4, Insightful

    4. Official update mirrors would disappear for weeks at a time

    What drove me away from Mandrake (as it was then) was that every time I wanted to install a new package I'd have to spend a couple of hours:

    1. Searching for the new location for the repository. They seemed to constantly change the paths arbitrarily every few weeks or so, apparently because they 'decided' that the old path wasn't a good naming convention or something.

    2. Downloading the updated package info.

    In Debian/Ubuntu an apt-get update takes a little while, maybe a minute or so. In Mandrake the equivalent to apt-get update (using urpmi) would take an hour or so. On the same internet connection. Which was 100M.

    I used the 'easy urpmi' site to keep track of the repositories but it was still very very slow and painful work.

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  3. Re:We use it for a reason by ladislavb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NO, I don't like the French either.

    This one sentence made your entire post utterly infantile. You don't like an entire nation??? Has every single person out of 60 million Frenchmen done something nasty to you so that you dislike them all?

    Sorry for being off-topic, but I'll just never be able to understand how a rational, intelligent and Linux-using human being can make such statements of hatred on a public blog, which proudly displays his/her nickname and web site. Crazy...