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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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  2. It is actually not such a bad distro by an.echte.trilingue · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and Mandrake since 9.1. Mandriva's implementation of KDE (3 and 4) is one of the best around. It is certainly better than Kubuntu. If you want an easy but reliable desktop Linux based on KDE, Mandriva is the way to go. Mandriva has better gtk integration, better update notification, and better a better configuration center than any other kde implementation that I have seen.

    Also, Mandriva's fonts are the best I have seen in Linux. I don't know why everybody else does not do whatever it is that they do, but they are smooth as silk.

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  3. Mandriva is still a great distro. by gukin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah I'm a fanboi and I have tried ubuntu but found it to be a little too dumbed down for my likes.

    The Powerpack is a really nice package due to it having some things that are really really nice. Trying to install the Citrix client, you'll need Motif 4, which is included in the power pack.

    Want to run an ATI card with xorg 1.6, the Power Pack comes with working drivers.

    Want to run Firefox plugins on x86_64? Mandriva got that one right too.

    Want to D/L the MS and Real codecs for mplayer? You can get them from the Penguin Liberation Front at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

    Want to set up a mythtv backend? Let Mandriva look for updates during an install or tell it to add "Distribution Sources" and all you need to do is type: "urpmi mythtv-setup mythtv-frontend mythtv-backend" and follow the instructions.

    Mandriva is, IMHO, the most flexible Linux Distribution available; and yeah, I'm going to pony up the pesos to buy the PowerPack.