Hooray! As promised earlier, we are happy to announce that Mandriva 2011 is out. You can download ISO images from here.
When downloading an iso-image, perhaps you will want to read the Release Notes.
We prepared a small manual of how to upgrade to the new release for users of the Mandriva Desktop 2010.2.
If you have never tried Mandriva, take a look at the Mandriva 2011 Tour.
When the power-pack ?
When??? Some people still need the powerpack
Yes , When??????
Any information about Powerpack??? from the team of mandriva
Yes – the biggest factor in favor of Mandriva has always been the PowerPack edition.
It works out of the box with pretty much everything including Nvidea and ATI video cards and it has the essential apps such as Skype in the packages. Install and go. This is a huge factor for those of us who have to do productive work on Linux with a minimum of delay.
Without the PowerPack Mandriva simply isn’t anything like as compelling a distro and that’s a crying shame as 2010.2 was a stunningly good release. If they had built incrementally on that Mandriva could easily have been the best, distro of 2011 but , leaving aside the various teething problems, the lack of the PowerPack version is a huge defect.
To put it in perspective, I’m a professional software developer who’s used Linux as my sole OS (I don’t use Windows) and Mandriva as my sole Linux workstation OS since the very first release back in 1996 (IIRC). In that time I’ve bought every PowerPack edition (and the equivalents that proceeded it) and have been glad to do so. Now I’m thinking of taking a serious look at Fedora.
Simply put, guys – if you want to keep your core paying users you have to release a PowerPack edition of 2011.
in french Madriva says : No more Powerpack !
http://linuxfr.org/news/mandriva-2011
I tryed it and, after 20 mins of restoring the old task bar and menu, I found it… just… incomplete… may be cos its not the powerpack…
Also i had to manually install nvidi drivers.
And enlarging the task bar(classic) the “start button” gets verry small and the bar ‘s background got smaller than the bar… 2 bug… not bad…
AND is everythin verry small at high(my normal) resolution, how to fix it ?
AND the desktop settings are messy and scattered…
yes, the classic task bar icon is micro
picture on final version DVD, after kde start shows: Mandriva 2011 Alpha1 ??
my nvidia card geforce gtx560ti runs fine with kernel upgrade > 3.0.3
use as root:
urpmi.addmedia –update Kernel_3.0.3 http://mirror.pianetalinux.org/MIB/2011.0/64/projects/kernels/3.0.3/
urpmi –auto -a kernel-firmware
urpmi –auto -a kernel-nrj-desktop-devel-3.0.3
urpmi –auto -a kernel-nrj-desktop-3.0.3
urpmi –auto-select –auto
after upgrade install nvidia 280.13 driver.
done.
super performance with oilrush v0.74 game, based on unigine engine.
over 15800 fps in mesa/gears
Can Any One explain to me what they did to mandriva ?
for years it was perfect now it’s just too mush mess.
the first thing is that i can change the resolution of my sync-master923(1400×900)
in the MCC the KDE will give a black screen after trying the new configs
and whatever i click yes or no it will give this god damn problem
next i just clicked on the reset button and (bmmmmmmmm)
it doesn’t boot any more (the first time in my life that happens to me with Linux)
the second thing that makes me angry is that there is no proprietary drivers
and as i remember they removed them cuz they don’t work fine with kde??
damn it,the free driver won’t even work
and for more ass pain smplayer is installed but it is not set to read videos as default player,!!!
why that ? do u thing beginners can clearly see that they should just select a player from the list of available programs ?
or they expect the video to start playing after clicking on it ?
and where is the the upgrade option ?
i read about it in the wiki ?
by the way where is the One ?
or they are just Words In Paper
the upgrade from my current 2010.2 is just (shut up don’t even think about it)
and to be honest, the simple welcome is useless cuz it is so big(i guess it is for laptops in the first place)
i wish if they make it a real good menu not a board ,
then damn again
no more gnome ???? ok it is a KDE based distro , Great then where is KDE Full Instalation ???
i was not able to Find K patience why ??
Cuz : it is a very big game we can’t include it,it will makes mandriva people look like idiots (they are too serious to put games in the distro)
and again and again Damn
why they removed the network configuration utility and replace it with that thing with big N ???
it won’t configure my WI-FI and it is just a messy thing not a real thing
(Where is the God Damned One ???)
I was considering trying mandriva, but after reading this i will have to reconsider, thanks for your comment!
Unable to boot muy Compaq laptop with the Mandriva 2011 DVD. :-S
Try adding nomodeset when booting the live image. Worked for me.
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Unable to boot on my Samsung NC20. I just got some fullscreen colors on display. Looks like a Testscreen. First Red,blue,green grey and then Contrastscreen from White to black. Then repeating.
Its look same like the failure what i have one year before with ubuntu on same system.
Greetings
I get the same thing, frustrating. I was hoping the command line update would work but I read it does not? Is there a fix or are we out of luck for now?
Also curious about the powerpack. Need it for work
Same here – I can’t even consider upgrading from 2010.2 until there is a 2011 PowerPack.
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How do I boot using this ISO from a USB drive? Is mandriva seed still supported?
Muk,
Just write an iso image to a flash. For additional information, see http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_Notes#Create_a_bootable_flash_drive_via_dd.
I downloaded Mandriva.2011.i586.1.ISO (1.6 GB DVD, could be a CD)
The file structure is different, I could not run the installation directly from the ISO image (lack the i586/isolinux/alt0 all.rdz and vmlinuz files). I had to burn a DVD.
Then the installer did not understand my display (nVidia GeForce 6100 + SyncMaster T220M). So I could not install it on my desktop. In notebok I ran the “live” but will not “kill” the “Mandriva 2008 Spring,” which runs smooth.
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“When downloading an iso-image, perhaps you will want to read the Release Notes.”
You should read those yourself before releasing. Full of “lies” (copy and paste from old version that just doesn’t apply anymore like claiming there would be Free editions, claiming there would be a GUI upgrade from within a prior version of Mandriva,…). On top of that the download link in those release notes doesn’t even point to the 2011 download, but 2010.2.
This first impression, together with the dropping of GNOME from the official distribution and the horrible “update instructions” are a big disappointment. (when using $MIRRORLIST, you’re re-adding the media of your current version, so you won’t do any update at all – I know it’s a wiki, but the version to manually select a specific mirror ain’t any better). Similar with the Release notes themselves in the update section. For the most important part, the “Add 2011.0 repositories.” it doesn’t give you the command.
I won’t bin Mandriva just yet (but won’t update just now either), but I will reevaluate different distros once again after many years of being a more or less happy user of Mandriva. But having (officially supported) GNOME is more important to me than being sentimental about my distro.
As there is no clean update path from 2010.2 to 2011.0 I can just go for a complete reinstall of any other distro. Even more so when Mandriva bins their own/unique management tools (network ones for examples, and probably only the first to be abandoned).
+1
+1
No option to update, only install or run live
no funciona con placa de nvidia 7600 gt y monitor compaq 7540 queda todo negro alguna idea gracias
Yeah right now they took away the 2010.1 PWP-downloads from the subscribers !
I have paid for it and now we can’t download the PWP-DVD!
Good on you MANDRIVA that is the way to go , 79€ in the trashcan for me and other subscribers thanks a lot!!
Thank you very much
Greetings of a mandriva freak in the early years from 2004 to 2010.2 …………………………….will it still be mandriva in 2012 ??????
What I find so interseting is you could never find this anywhere else.
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Installed into Virtual Box, somewhat slow, but OK, whatever…..
Then on opening, and selecting “Launch,” it starts the “Install” sequence, keyboard selection, licensing agreement, etc.
Sorry, guys…………..
While there are many bugs that are associated with new releases, and while as long as there are these bugs there will be online prowlers who make it their lifes work to post the most negative and non factual reviews possible based upon the bugs that or more times than not obvious. When posting a review it is important to balance. As a Mandriva user, I look forward to many years of of using this release at my place of business. I have found Mandriva to be a solid, straight forward and worry free distro. Mandriva works well with my databases and network, and with just minor tweeking has become the OS of choice among all of my employees. We are still on 2008 and to tell you the truth I really do not see any reason to upgrade but I guess the eyecandy would go a long way towards moral…
Totally agree with your comment.
A really beautiful distribution. I love ROSA, the problem for me is KDE : I don’t understand it. Too bad
Review : http://discoverlinux-clemi46.blogspot.com/2011/08/je-suis-de-retour-mandriva-aussi.html
yea wheres tha powerpack or one version??? why dont they release the free, one, and pwp version all at once?? this release was all unorganized….and why not tell us if there is gonna be a one verison or powerpack it tells us no where and people keep asking but no reply terrible communication
does not work with nvidia 7600 gt plate and compaq 7540 monitor is all black any idea thanks
People seem to recommend trying with the “nomodeset” boot option in this case.
like where I put the monodeset
Look here : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2011.0_Errata#On_some_ATI_GPU_system_starts_with_a_black_screen
Hello there,
Thanks for the great job on the new mandriva release, i do have one question, how do i install the adobe flash player and enable my wireless wifi. Both of these were working fine on the mandriva 2010. Any help you can provide would be great.
Thanks,
Yes it is annoying how the wireless fails to work, and cannot be configured from the system tray icon. It worked perfectly with Mandriva 2010,2009,2008. I fixed it by using ‘Network Center’ to configure the wireless (Accessed from the start menu).
And why is it so slow to install ?
And why I can’t choose what to install ?
It’s just 1.6 GB ant its so slow to install, I wonder how long it take to install on old machines…
But How do I upgrade to my 2010 mandriva one to 2011? command line update did not work for me..
Why Aria 2 fails often?
Need to have an auto update option integrated with future versions.. mandriva freeks like us need it!!
The update guide http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Upgrading_Mandriva_Linux_from_2010_to_2011 advises to use wget for th update instead of aria.
Option –wget tell urpmi to use wget to download packages. By default, urpmi uses aria2 that is not always works correctly.
What I find so ientersting is you could never find this anywhere else.
Looking for a detailed reveiw? Here’s one:
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/09/01/mandriva-desktop-2011-review/
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“Network management and configuration
NetworkManager associated with Knetworkmanager are now used for the management of network connections. It is a very robust solution and has a better consistency with the system in a whole.”
You have got to be kidding me! Network Manager is incomplete in KDE. You used to have a better one in 2010. Mandriva 2010 is rock solid, 2011 is like a house of cards.
So far I am enjoying it. But the thing that I can’t understand is why was the “create new file” context menu removed in Dolphin. It is really stupid since the functionality already was there. Aren’t there more important things to do than to wreck good features.
And even worse is the arrogant response when someone pointed it out as a bug. I think the so-called “director of usability” mentioned in the bug report doesn’t have much work to do, or doesn’t like the distribution… that’s the only reason why I think he would be spending time and money to make things worse.
Dennis K, if you are reading this I am going to say you are an idiot! Why would I open kwrite to create a file when you can do it from the desktop directly?
Come on!! This cannot be true. You cannot create a new file from a file manager? But you can create a folder. Really strange! Please start using the file manager to experience which features are needed before you remove features. I have a very difficult time to imagine a file manager without the option to create files. Then I’ll have to actually start e.g. kwrite from the start menu, create my new file and then browse to where I want to put it. Time to uninstall Dolphin and install something useful!
I always thought that computers and IT was about automating and facilitating procedures. I must have misunderstood something… or what?
Just remember, this is mandriva’s fault. Real dolphin remains as usual.
I simply don’t understand why Mandriva spends time doing changes like that. In my opinion most companies are best off only using time on activities that add value. Not on activities that subtracts value. But again I might have misunderstood something. Please correct me if I have.
Can Any One explain to me what they did to mandriva ?
for years it was perfect now it’s just too mush mess.
the first thing is that i can change the resolution of my sync-master923(1400×900)
in the MCC the KDE will give a black screen after trying the new configs
and whatever i click yes or no it will give this god damn problem
next i just clicked on the reset button and (bmmmmmmmm)
it doesn’t boot any more (the first time in my life that happens to me with Linux)
the second thing that makes me angry is that there is no proprietary drivers
and as i remember they removed them cuz they don’t work fine with kde??
damn it,the free driver won’t even work
and for more ass pain smplayer is installed but it is not set to read videos as default player,!!!
why that ? do u thing beginners can clearly see that they should just select a player from the list of available programs ?
or they expect the video to start playing after clicking on it ?
and where is the the upgrade option ?
i read about it in the wiki ?
by the way where is the One ?
or they are just Words In Paper
the upgrade from my current 2010.2 is just (shut up don’t even think about it)
and to be honest, the simple welcome is useless cuz it is so big(i guess it is for laptops in the first place)
i wish if they make it a real good menu not a board ,
then damn again
no more gnome ???? ok it is a KDE based distro , Great then where is KDE Full Instalation ???
i was not able to Find K patience why ??
Cuz : it is a very big game we can’t include it,it will makes mandriva people look like idiots (they are too serious to put games in the distro)
and again and again Damn !!!!!!!!!!
why they removed the network configuration utility and replace it with that thing with big N ???
it won’t configure my WI-FI and it is just a messy thing not a real thing
Where Is Skype ? And Crhomuim ?? Where Is PoWerPack ???
where is every thing ????
ok i hope they read this
(and this is not a spammy post i just dont have a website so i wrote one randomly)
Totally agree… I all time paid for my PowerPack and ready to pay again… WHAT HAPPEN WITH MANDRIVA ????????
Agree. PC LInux OS and Mageia are MORE MANDRIVA than Mandriva 2011. Mandriva has a reputation of being solid and reliable, 2011 is simply not it.
I am staying with 2010.2 and PC Linux OS. and whats with the useless network manager? take a look at PC Linux OS, the network manager was originally from Mandriva yet you are not using it. KDE Network manager is incomplete and buggy, yet you describe it as robust? I dont think they even know the meaning of the word.
I agree
I am Currently Upgrading To Mageia
Cuz In My ViewPoint It’s More Mandrivated , lol
Mandriva Was Perfect In 2008
Funny In 2009
just A Little Bit Buggy In 2010
In 2010.1 Some Bugs Fixed And as Usual New Apears
In 2010.2 Bug’si’Bugs (Mandriva Team) Fixed Some Bugs And Making New Bugs To Fix Them Next Time
But When Next Time Finally Came
They Decided Not to Fix Bugs Any More But Keep Generating Them Like That :
Why I Can’t Create A New File In Dolphin ?
Why I can’t Change The Resolution Any More ?(Cuz Xorg Will Hang Resulting In A Reinstallation){I am Not Lying 3 Times In This Week Then :I Installed Fedora 15}
Why Grub Losing His God Damn Configs Every Damned Reboot ??
Why I Can’t Use OpenGL ??(cuz the Proprietary drivers don’t like Kde Effects,Mandriva Said)
Why I Can’t Upgrade Without Doing A Fresh Installation As Usual ??
Why It Takes A Week To Install While It Is Just 1.6Go ???
Why There Is No LILo Packages While Grub Is F***ed By Mandriva Team And Lose His Configs Every Day ???
Why The Menu Is Very Big ??(Is This A Desktop Distro ?,or a NoteBook’s)
Where Is The Boot From Hard Drive Option??(Yes The Distro Was Designed To Reinstall After Every Boot So Why u Would Boot From Hard Drive ??)
Why I Can’t Get Back My Old Windows Boot Loader ??(Cuz They Removed The Rescue Option)
Why I Can’t Check My Configuration Once Again After The Reboot ??(Cuz They Removed The Mandriva’s Full Installer And Used The Live One On A Full DVD Distro)
Why There Is No More Gnome ??(Cuz There Is No Rosa For Gnome)
And Where Is The Grub Theme ??(They Replaced It With Solid Damned Color)
Now Let Me Think …
Wait Where Is Install Software Option In The Main Menu ??(Now I Have To Go To MMC,Damn)
Why The Turn On NumLock Problem Back Again ??(I Thought It Despaired In 2009 No ?)
Why Half Of The KDE Is Missed ?(cuz Its A Kde Distro You Can’t Include Kde In A Kde Distro,Cuz It Will Work Fine And The Users Will Feel Happy And That’s Something U Can’t Risk Leting It Happens)
Then Why The Default Theme Engine Is In GTK+ ??(just to add more useless packages,the first impression when i saw The “KDE only” is that They Want To Put A 4.7Go Of Usefull Softs Instead Of A QT And GTK+ Duplicates For Every Thing But Why Not Just Make Thing Worse ?)
And Why Not Replacing Useful Tools With Toys Like KNetWorkDamned
Which Results In 2011 The Best Distro Ever Made (Yes It Is The Best In Killing Users)
While The Apocalypse Did Not Happened Yet I will Just Tell About It (The Mandriva Application Manager)
Can Any One Say More Than That To Tell He Is Sad ?
The developers forked to c reate Mageia, I guess they left. I cant get my 2011 to even install it just throws a console
Agree !
I have the sensation it’s like a beta… or a distro of 5 years ago…
better say like a first alpha
a non-stable cooker edition
Under Heavy Development And Every Thing Messed Up
Mandriva 2011 sucks! I came here after it wouldn’t install from hard disk. The ISO file Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso is not recognized by the boot.iso install program. WTF? The list of glitches and workarounds to install or upgrade is simply appalling: use ‘nomodeset’ to boot it; specify wget because it defaults to aria2, which is buggy; proprietary video drivers aren’t installed by choice and you can’t install them unless you jump through hoops, and the free drivers for the video cards used by 90% of the user base don’t work; and on and on….. I agree with a previous comment – this isn’t a release, it’s a beta, at best. A rough beta. Since when was Mandriva taken over by Russian hackers who think putting out shit to users is okay? I’ve half a mind to write up this failure and publicize it to warn users not to even try to install Mandriva 2011. This is unconscionable for a formerly well respected Linux distribution, and you should suffer bad publicity for this dog’s dinner of a so-called ‘release’. I’m disgusted by it and I’m moving to Mageia.
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I agree WhiT That But I Still Belive That ROSa LAbs Do A GoOd joB iF thEY fOCUS oN tHE lOOK
aND mANDRIVA tEAM Should Focus On The Distro (like Before)
And they Really Should Fork Kde (They Can’t Keed Changine Every THing Under The Name Of KDE)
Kde Should STill Kde And Mandriva Should Build They’re Changes Under The Name MDE
(Madndriva DE)
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I’ve been with Mandrake/Mandriva since 1998. Ever since I’ve had wireless, it worked. Well, I install Mandriva 2011 and can’t get wireless to work. It’s listed but it tells me “Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)”. Sometime its the little things that count. Well, I’m done with you Mandriva. I’m switching to something else.
I’ve been faithful to you all this time, but this is the last straw! Goodbye.
With Radeon 6850 not start… black screen.
…why those comment sections has more post than the forum anyway ?
Because Of Me
DaMn It Am InSaNë !!!!
i love mandriva but this is the worst distro they’ve released since i’ve been using it since 2006 i wont jump ship though like alot of unloyal users are talking i’ll wait for the one version and hope it fixes these issues
Agreed.
Same here – I’ll stay on 2010.2 and see if they can get a usable release out for 2011.1. I really hope they do but this whole mess has a bad feel to it; The ‘they lost the plot too badly even to realize how badly they’ve lost it’ kind of feel.
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I got the solution for the missing Gnome environment and it is really good OPENSUSE 11.4 with GNOME3.
Opensuse is also a distro that in first place supports KDE BUT they also supports GNOME and LXDE and XFCE.
Here ends the relation with MANDRIVA for me GOODBYE , i go back to the beginning
of my linux roots to OPENSUSE !
GOOD LUCK FOR THOSE THAT STAY !!!!!!!
??????? Where is Mandriva going with this? Why? I installed the new system spent several days with it got so totally frustrated I wiped it and went back to 2010.2 Hwy the claim to support KDE then make something that looks and acts nothing like KDE? It is refreshing to see someone try new thisgs in a user interface but this is not ready for prime time. Perhaps if it was one of the GUI options offered at startup, at least until it matures .
I want my powerpack back, (that I paid for) I want GNOME working the way it should. All the great management tools that drew me to use Mandriva in the first place. As far as I am concerned this is no better than Microsoft dictating how people will use their computers and ignoring standards. (OK its better than that but not much) GIVE IT BACK Mandriva this is not listening to the user community. I am very disappointed.
I was using Mandriva for some years. But here it ends. I liked powerpack, a DVD with all the necessary programs and including all codecs. I made the switch to Mepis 11 (Debian based). a 2GB iso. Working out of the box, also G3, even in the 64bit version.
According to the release notes, “If you need Mandriva with another DE or WM you can use unofficial packages or distributions prepared by community members (which are described below).” However, there’s nothing “below” about this. Did someone forget to add that bit of information? It would be useful if it could be added, as I can’t even consider updating until I can do so without landing KDE.
I installed 2011 in a VirtualBox VM to evaluate it. That’s the first time I’ve not just thrown the latest Mandriva release onto hardware and let it rip. Why? Basically, I have no faith in this release.
Leaving aside the absence of the PowerPack release – a killer issue in itself – - 2011.0 just feels like a mess. Too much is broken, retrograde or simply missing. The new-look GUI is superficially pretty but it’s simply not up to prolonged use. We’d be much better off with vanilla KDE4. The absence of Gnome is problematic, too, let alone the missing non-free drivers, Skype and all the other things needed to do anything useful in the real world.
I’m sure that everybody worked very hard to get 2011.0 out but overall, this feels like a product from a company that had to stretch it’s limited resources too thinly to do the job properly. Limited resources aren’t uncommon but the trick is to deploy them where they will have the best effect and the decision to spend so much of them not on fixing basic issues but instead on what in the final analysis are unnecessary changes to the perfectly adequate KDE4 desktop was a very very unfortunate one.
We, or most of us, don’t want flaky resource-consuming eye-candy and lots of broken stuff that used to work better in the previous release, we can get that from Microsoft.
I may be wrong but based on my own experience and comments on this thread and elsewhere I’d suggest that what most Mandriva users want is a distro that installs easily on as wide a range of hardware as possible (including non-free drivers), is kept reasonably secure and up to date, provides the standard desktop environments (KDE4, Gnome 2 or 3, XFCE and LXDE), has a good range of free and non-free applications and that runs in a solid and reliable way. Mandriva pretty much had all that in 2010.2 but it’s gone in 2011.0.
I’ve used Mandriva on a daily basis to do real work since its very first release and I’ve always liked it (and paid for it) so really hope you can salvage this in 2011.1. But please understand that you’re simply not going to do that by continuing in the direction established in 2011.0. You will have to recognize that 2011.0 was a serious mis-step and adapt accordingly or your user base will simply vote with it’s feet and vanish of to other distros such as Mageia.
I have to say that I’m very disappointed. The support for btrfs seems to have vanished (it can’t find a btrfs / partition by UUID at boot time and there’s no option to set the compress option and you can’t encrypt it). All of this worked in 2010: I know because I was one of those who helped get it working (there were problems with the security additions). To see all that effort discarded is very sad.
Also, who decided to make it look like ubuntu? If I wanted that I’d have installed ubuntu….
Where is Serbian language in installer language selection ?
And where is Serbia country in installer’s country selection?
This was the INSTALL FROM HELL first I used the iso cd and guess what no upgrade selection so I was faced with performing a complete install or finding a way to upgrade. The authors of the Release Notes and the author of the Upgrading Mandriva Linux from 2010.0 to 2011 should check with each other. The information conflicts and leads to confusion for me. For example the command for adding the 2011 respositories did not work for me so I had to find a work around. I went to Easy Urpmi to set up the respositories. If aria2 does not work, either fix it or get rid of it. The idea of the ROCKET BAR must have sounded good but why the black background? Also why the black panel? The RELEASE NOTES were useless until I got to page 7 of 9. The RELEASE NOTES generally were in conflict with the Upgrading notes. A suggestion before publishing notes compare and verify the procedures it saves us poor users a lot of time and energy. Now gotta find out how to boot into GNOME since it is not listed on the KDM.
Worst release ever.
I have a subsciption until 2014.
I want my money back.
Unfortunatelly I followed this:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Upgrading_Mandriva_Linux_from_2010_to_2011
And now I don’t even dare to restart without it completing (depencency failures)…
Thanks Mandriva! How about some QA next time?
Ok, installed from scratch, grub with Mandriva on 2nd disk doesn’t work but after some fiddling got it working…
Flashy UI, just hope I can get the 3d desktop to work…
Ok, multi monitor etc just won’t work.
The plasma stuff keeps hiding my running apps to. Very annoying. I am giving up. And I won’t re-install 2010.2 on this box since it’s wiped anyway.
Debian it is. Been a great 8 years with Mandriva but I guess it’s time to move on.
yuh this release is horrible (as hard as it is for me to say it)… i tried to get used to it but its way too buggy. this is suppose to be a upgrade not a downgrade.. i can’t believe they let this release out the door, they were better off pushing it back for the 5th time until it was actually ready..this is not a final release at all! never been dissapointed in a mandriva release i have switched back to 2010.2 ill wait for powerpack since i paid and i hope its not like this…….
How can I create LiveUSB in Windows7? UltraISO does not create LiveUSB from presented ISO. In Mandriva 2010.2 it was very simple. Many notebooks don’t have DVD-drives…
Keep away from this release. It’s just pure disaster.
I’ve tried 64bit version on my laptop and server, both nvidia cards. On both computers neither live nor install versions worked. Black screen or colourfull walpaper thats was all I could see… Last try was installing this on vmware – results were perfectly the same. And those funny screens saying that my hardware doesn’t meet minimum requirements. Yeah, I got some 8GB RAM and 5 TB hard drive space and 1900 + 1600 screens, too big for you Mandriva
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It’s really pity, but I have to admit – Mandriva is dead. Once it was on of the most friendly distros, now it’s just useless. They had problems with financing model and ownership, they’d tried to survive… but they just didn’t make it. There should be now version 2012 if they had anything like serious development team – instead they gave us first 2011 version… which doesn’t work.
Try ubuntu instead, it works out of the box.
Try Mandriva 2010.2 Or Mageia 1
Ubuntu Is Bad Choice If u Think ABout Using Linux For ANything MOre than Facebook