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Mandriva 2009 Spring Released

Posted by timothy on from the great-distro-but-mandrake-was-a-cooler-name dept.

Frederik writes "Mandriva just released the 2009 Spring version of its distribution. Highlights of this new version include vastly improved boot times thanks to Speedboot, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26.1, XFCE 4.6 and LXDE desktop environments, a completely rewritten Mandriva Security Centre and improved firewall and network configuration tools, OLPC Sugar environment, QT Creator development environment, Songbird audio player, ext4 support and many more. Check out the release tour and release notes for more information or immediately start downloading it."

5 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Mandrive versus Ubuntu by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they're the Opera of Linux.

    Really nice, and the reason why some of us experimented with leaving the conventional, but then dumped for a new hotter gal.

    --
    If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
  2. Re:You keep using that word... by QuoteMstr · · Score: 3, Insightful

    KDE is none of these things. KDE is a piece of software. It is a thing, neither a plan, nor an idea, nor a model, nor a design, nor a specification, nor a standard, nor an algorithm, nor a policy. Saying Mandriva implements KDE makes as much sense as saying you implement a sweater when you put it on in the morning.

  3. I have it running great on 40+ systems now by alexmin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Including 30+ production servers. Love it for the driver support and all latest packages. Had very few problems over the course of 6+ years, mostly with packages broken upstream. Looked on few occasions at Fedora and Ubuntu but always came back. As for desktops, PLF (non-free codecs and libs like libdvdcss2) is a real kicker.

  4. Re:It was their ball to drop and they did. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Could you be a little more vague? All this detailed info about your problems obscures your point.

  5. Re:You keep using that word... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We need a new moderation category like Grammar Troll, Grammar Nazi, or Language Douche.