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- UConnBBall, on 10/12/2008, -3/+24Mandriva is a great distro for my family computer with two teenagers they have yet to mess the OS up. I look forward to several of the new additions to this solid distro.
Personal Distro: OpenSUSE 11 and Fedora 8
Friends and neighbors with no computer skills get: Mint 5
The advanced tech people I give them: Mandriva - anonymousguy, on 10/12/2008, -2/+13Heh... when are these companies going to learn that they can't let the programmers do interface&graphic design for their themes?
Rancid. - subtle, on 10/12/2008, -0/+11Nothing beats a nice artork. Two thumbs up.
- FluffyKitten01, on 10/12/2008, -0/+7yeah, that threw it off..is it really that hard to make it all pretty?
- subtle, on 10/12/2008, -1/+8You'll be waiting a long time. If you settle for Intrepid, however, it will be here before you know it.
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -4/+10It's not. Mandriva used to have a very large following, but now it's just another distro with another release playing catchup.
- codyman, on 10/12/2008, -6/+12looks all nice UNTIL you see that fugly circa 1995 menu bar at the bottom... whats the deal with that? Did they just stick the windows 95 bar down there?
- darthjure, on 10/12/2008, -0/+6I like the screen-by-screen walkthrough. Nicely done.
- shanesemler, on 10/12/2008, -4/+9I still hate that ***** KDE4 cashew thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -3/+8That's not a review. It practically just wrote how the installation went. Lame. Buried.
- dkdevine, on 10/12/2008, -0/+5That's not true. Mandriva's Control Center sets the casual new user at ease and is tops for control centers in Linux.
It's faster than most distros out there and has many wizards for setting up printers, doing standard things like setting up vpn, etc. It's a notch above Ubuntu in my honest opinion.
If you haven't tried it and used it, then you have no idea. - TKn00b, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4+10000000000000000000000
Is there anyway to disable it yet? - mynameistux, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4it time to try some new distos meethinks.
(begins torrent of open suse 11, fedora 9, mandriva 2009, and arch) - DomZy, on 10/12/2008, -1/+5I'm loving their artork
- binarysemaphore, on 10/12/2008, -0/+32008 is about to end in two months. They expect to have this release supported & sold in 2009 as well. It doesn't sound good to sell someting with 2008 in name in 2009.
Auto manufacturers have been doing this since ages now - radu79, on 10/12/2008, -0/+3I am using Mandriva 2009 Beta 1 for my Acer One netbook, because it recognizes pretty much all the hardware (except that there are some problems with the card reader).
I used Mandriva before, and it is my favorite Linux distribution. The hardware support is much better than Ubuntu (fewer problems, more quality control), the network monitor is better, and will automatically download the drivers for you, etc. - Vadi0, on 10/12/2008, -0/+3Looks solid. Won't be switching though.
- MasterDwarf, on 10/12/2008, -1/+4I wish they kept it Mandrake.
- brettalton, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Even as an Ubuntu zealot I don't believe that.
- dkdevine, on 10/12/2008, -2/+4windows 95? Are you serious? You need to go back and install it sometime and recheck what you just said.
- dkdevine, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2You should give it a try just the same.
- hwood, on 10/12/2008, -3/+5Still can' get over that name...
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3Something that ubuntu really needs to look up to...
- binarysemaphore, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2I tried this 2009 release and it appears to be solid. Ubuntu failed to get my wireless USB dongle working. But Mandriva detected it without any hassles, guided me with ndiswrapper installation and got it working. I will stick with Mandriva just for that
- Magnolit, on 10/12/2008, -1/+2How is Mandriva better than, for example, Sabayon for a non-power/casual user?
- helraizr, on 10/12/2008, -9/+10I'll wait for Intepid.
- angrykeyboarder, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Mandriva is an awesome and highly underrated distro. My only major complaint is that unlike Ubuntu, Fedora & openSUSE there is no 64-bit Live CD. The only way to get 64-bit is via a traditional DVD or via a net install.
Live CDs are just so much quicker to install from and Mandriva's 32-bit Live CDs include flash and java by default. - angrykeyboarder, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1Easily fixed. At least the overall theme isn't Brown...
- mr5150, on 10/12/2008, -1/+2haven't touched this since the days of Mandrake 8, it looks nice but i don't think i'll be using anytime soon.
debian suits me fine. - Aquashark, on 10/12/2008, -3/+4another boring predictable review.. making the same useless points with each new version
- brettalton, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Haven't used Mandriva since it was called Mandrake and haven't seen a need to. This however, is a bit different. Too bad I'm a server guy =S
- subgeniusd, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Sabayon 3.5 package manager sucks. So damn slow, confusing, limited package availability.
Several other deal breakers. The most overrated distro I've ever installed. - HonoredMule, on 10/12/2008, -2/+3Yeah, well I'll hold out for Insipid.
- angrykeyboarder, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1I guess you've not seen Mandriva lately....
- fatas, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1they need to reduce the font size it looks childish
- rac1234, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1What, that Sinclair ZX Spectrum rainbow and Spirograph flower petals? Not even as good as Ubuntu's recent efforts. (Yes, I know I'm showing my age. I don't care.)
I agree that Ubuntu needs to improve its default theme. The heron on the wallpaper was pretty neat and I saw some nice Ibexes (Ibices?) in a recent post. But they still need to realize that the orangey brown theme is just too fundamentally pooey. - cowboy77061, on 10/12/2008, -2/+3damn that's ugly.
- brettalton, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Intrepid beta is nice and stable, but I reaaaaaly don't see the difference between Hardy and Intrepid, except for GNOME 2.24 and a slight theme change.
It's nice, but not awe inspiring. - lvliv, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1no its mostly ...subtle changes things like better hardware support and what not.
- lvliv, on 10/12/2008, -2/+2Holy ***** It's OSX :|
But seriously It looks the same as before. Still not switching from my Intrepid Beta :) - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+1I for example, was introduced to linux by Mandriva. And I have to say that they use to be better back then. I tried it out the latest stable release (not this one) and it didn't live up to the hype, some things just didn't work and the didn't look as good as ubuntu's... The software packaging manager didn't worked that well either. I was trying it out because I wanted to get rid of ubuntu (reason: latest LTS release) but I had to hold on with it until intrepid, which I have on the laptop...
- eruanno, on 10/12/2008, -2/+2trudat
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+1Some people just like to poop through the mouth...
- dkdevine, on 10/12/2008, -2/+2Basic is all you need. You have access to everything the stuff with cash has...you just don't have support and you don't have it installed and configured by default. YOU have to do the lifting on the free version.
- alpharaptor, on 10/12/2008, -1/+1they still charge cash for anything more than the basic
- forgeflow, on 10/12/2008, -2/+2Unless I've missed a dose of my medication, it is still 2008. Why jump the gun on the year in the release name?
- nitesoIja, on 10/12/2008, -4/+3lol it looks like a window that needs to be cleaned
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