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Mandriva 2009 Spring Kicks Vista7 back to /dev/null
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| With my latest foray into Windows 7 build 7100 (official Release Candidate
| from MS Technet) I was experiencing largely the same errors/issues/bad
| performance as I had on the unofficial 7057 and 7077 wherein everyone
| replied “Hold your horses”
|
| One of my test systems, this Athlon64 3200+ with 2 gigs of RAM and a Geforce
| 7650 GS was to see how 7 performed on hardware that was reasonable 3-4 years
| ago, and overall it failed terribly.
|
| [...]
|
| Mandriva 2009 Spring seems to have all the features one would want from
| Vista7 without the sucky undertaste of DRM, while managing to take up 5-6
| times less hard drive space, a third the memory, and managing to work
| exceptionally well even on XP-era hardware that Microsoft abandoned long ago.
|
| Mandriva 2009 Spring also clearly one-ups Ubuntu, especially in the area of
| Pulseaudio (which is often buggy and unreliable in Ubuntu Jaunty), users that
| this affects should move to Mandriva immediately.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/mandriva-2009-spring-kicks-vista7-back-to-devnull/
Microsoft -- as usual -- is still lagging behind with a laggy O/S.
Recent:
A quick look at Mandriva 2009.1 RC2
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| The Live CD booted much faster than the previous versions. I did not time it
| but it was definitely faster. The boot screen also revealed new artwork which
| I like better than the one in Mandriva 2009. Apart from the looks, the system
| was as stable as any other Mandriva release.
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http://pbs01.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/a-quick-look-at-mandriva-20091-rc2/
Mandriva 2009.1 RC1 Screenshot Tour For both KDE and GNOME editions
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| On March 10th, Mandriva announced the immediate availability of Mandriva
| Linux 2009.1 RC1. Though a bit late, we thought it would be nice to please
| some of our readers and offer them a visual tour of this first release
| candidate. And we promise that from now on we will keep you updated with
| screenshots for all Mandriva releases, so stay tuned!
|
| What's new in Mandriva Linux 2009.1 RC1? Well, the most important feature of
| this release is draksnapshot a.k.a. the brand new system restore
| functionality. Another cool addition is the HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
| that allows users to get a complete description of the hardware without
| needing to install the operating system to the hard drive.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-2009-1-RC1-Screenshot-Tour-106893.shtml
Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring RC1 ready for testing
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| The Mandriva development team today announced a release candidate for its
| 2009 Spring release, codenamed Pomerol. Release candidate 1 includes KDE
| 4.2.1, GNOME 2.25.92, Xfce 4.6, X.org server 1.6, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1 and
| the brand-new qt 4.5.0.
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| In addition to features such as Speedboot, included in the beta release last
| month, 2009 Spring RC1 includes the experimental hybrid ISO technology.
| Hybrid ISO allows users to dump an ISO image to USB storage devices which can
| be used to boot additional devices such as netbooks.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4349
Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring RC1 ready for tests!
http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/03/11/mandriva-linux-2009-spring-rc1-ready-for-tests/
Mandriva 2009.0: Much improved since last year
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| On my completely subjective rating scale……4.9 out of 5.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/mandriva-20090-much-improved-since-last-year/
Mandriva 2009.0 KDE 4.2.1 packages available - With Qt 4.5.0 final !!!
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| Arrived the time of year of doing another test upgrade for Mandriva users.
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http://linux.blogs2k.com/2009/03/05/mandriva-20090-kde-421-packages-available-with-qt-450-final/
Mandriva Linux: What Windows should be.
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| For the last 15 or more years I have been waiting for Linux to be as user
| friendly as Windows. As more and more impressive software came out for
| windows, this grew stronger and stronger. Now, I am finally satisfied. I
| installed and instantly saw that my life was about to get easier. I spend
| about 16 hours a day coding and Googling. So, my operating system must be top
| notch. I also do not like to sit and type commands all day either. But with
| Mandriva 2009, I do not have to!
|
| It happens everytime my girlfriend goes to MySpace. She gets infected with
| malware, despite running Spybot SD and AVG. Great job, now I am going to have
| to clean her PC out again right? Wrong, I formatted the drive and installed
| Mandriva. She is now browsing safely and is having no problem using Linux. It
| is as easy as Windows now, but without the bullshit. Now, I do not complain
| that she is going to MySpace!
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http://blog.stablephp.com/mandriva-linux-what-windows-should-be
Mandriva 2009.1 Beta Boots Faster
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| Delayed two days, Mandriva announced last night (February 12th) the beta
| version of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2009.1 (Spring) distribution. This
| beta release brings a Live CD, for anyone who wants to test it without
| installing it, and some of the hottest Linux technologies, such as: Linux
| kernel 2.6.28, X.org Server 1.5.99.902, KDE 4.2, GNOME 2.26 Beta, XFCE 4.6
| Beta 3, OpenOffice.Org 3.0.1, LXDE, Python 2.6.1 and above all that, support
| for the EXT4 filesystem, in the installer.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-2009-1-Beta-Boots-Faster-104427.shtml
Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring makes its debut
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| Kickstarting what promises to be a busy couple of months for Linux releases,
| the Mandriva team has announced the beta release of its Mandriva Linux 2009
| Spring edition. Codenamed Margaux, the beta version takes the first steps
| towards speedier boot times with part one of its Speedboot project which
| users can enable t to test out its progress.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4088
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