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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."

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  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.

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