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Mandriva Linux 2010 is coming soon, as does the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” and we believe it’s time, yes, for a seasonal pitch about Mandriva’s persona as a Linux distribution publisher, and the Mandriva Linux Community role in this regard (we will cover other Mandriva activities later, for sure).
Although we might be a little didactic in this serie, this will help you to better see how Mandriva is considering the coming years (your feedback is so very welcome, here, in the forum or on your own blog).
As there’s quite a lot of things to say, we’ll make three separate notes:
- Being a Linux distribution publisher
- 101: contributing to Mandriva Linux
- 102: taking part in Mandriva
Let’s go.
I’m aways spreading about Mandriva goodness! *-*
[...] Re-introducing Mandriva Linux Mandriva Linux 2010 is coming soon, as does the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” and we believe it’s time, yes, for a seasonal pitch about Mandriva’s persona as a Linux distribution publisher, and the Mandriva Linux Community role in this regard (we will cover other Mandriva activities later, for sure). [...]
A re-intro? I would think it would be known by now! With this new direction in funding and how it is funded as a project, does this mean of the stuff that has been around as say a “feature” actually get tweaked into an actual conspiracy of something called Mandrake?
the problem with all linux distributions is the hardware support and ease of installation. a highlight amongst the hardware support is that of printers and wirelss routers. the last time I used linux there was no support for the printer, router and monitor and had to accept a less than acceptable compromise.upgrading should be much easier.
my 2c
Indeed, hardware manufacturers are slowly getting the tremendous advantage they have with an open source support of their products. But it’s getting better with time. HW Quality and support is growing, supported hardware lists are being slowly but surely built (for computer systems for now).
You’re right, we still can make it better, and that’s what we are up to anyway.
Which printer/router/monitor did you use?
Mandriva Linux is becoming nightmare for ardent Mandriva Linux applications developers. Where do the development tools go which used to be included in the Mandrake distro CDs? I mean the devel packages for e.g. xorg, openmotif, Qt, opengl/mesa, gcc/gfortran, etc.
Could you elaborate? It sounds like you have only considered One or the mini dual CD – where indeed, there is just the minimum software required to have a working desktop OS.
You can still get development tools from Free (or One and adding additional medias).
If some tool is still missing from these public repositories, you are welcome to suggest it for addition in our Bugzilla.
I like Mandriva Linux, it simple and high performance. All of my works are running on this linux distro.
“Mandriva Linux is becoming nightmare for ardent Mandriva Linux applications developers. Where do the development tools go which used to be included in the Mandrake distro CDs?”
Like all the other software they’re available from the repositories through the package manager. It’s dead simple too – it sets up the repositories automatically now so all you have to do is type in the name of the -devel package(s) that you need.
Honestly surprised that someone who writes complex code to develop applications can’t use such a simple tool – or just didn’t bother to look maybe.
Hi,
I went away from the old Mandrake for a few years, into Suse and then PCLos (lovely thing), Ubuntu…and when i came back into Mandriva with 2009, oh Boy, was I surprised!
Hadn’t seen that fast a Linux boot or that kinda speedy opening of Open Office.
Been glued to Mandriva ever since. Love the SpeedBoot and the other rapid fast things Mandriva is heading towards.
I would love to see something done about Gnome boot getting speeded up …and
Hibernate to disk to finally work. That is something I would really want to see. Doesnt seem to work on my 2009 and 2010 RC2..not sure if it is NVIDIA related (I am on NVIDIA 8400 GS)
Love you Mandriva!!!!!!!!1
Santosh
India
I am waiting for Mandriva Linux 2010, the great Linux distribution.
I use hibernate on Mandriva 2009.1 and it works apparently perfectly.
Working with local Linux User Groups my perception is that most of them go with ubuntu.
As I install the system in dual boot mode on many machines I find Mandriva to be far superior, mainly on account of the fact that it is so comprehensive ‘out of the box’.
In consequence many of my colleagues have made the switch to Mandriva and are very happy.
So on 4th November I will be downloading 2010.0 PWP.