Yes.
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| Author | Content |
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| rijelkentaurus Aug 13, 2008 2:05 PM EDT |
Yes, the best distribution I have ever used on the desktop (never used it as a server). I expect great things from 2009.0, it's already pretty darned good at Beta2 and there are about two months of testing left. |
| DiBosco Aug 13, 2008 2:54 PM EDT |
Is Beta 2 available already? I found Alpha 2 ok apart from Dolphin and konqueror being slow, but Beta 1 just seems broken to me. This will be the first time in a while I won't adopt a new version of Mandriva unless it improves dramatically. Either that or I'll just install KDE 3.5 (rather than 4.1 which I am guessing is where the issues are). 2008.1 is brilliant though. 2007 onwards have been great and you see big leaps with each release. I love Mandriva, me. |
| rijelkentaurus Aug 13, 2008 3:39 PM EDT |
My bad, it's Beta1. |
| tracyanne Aug 13, 2008 4:06 PM EDT |
I thought Beta 1 was broken too, but I discovered it was a problem with VirtualBox not working well with the tickless kernel. By adding 'nohz=off' to the kernel parms fixes the problem. |
| rijelkentaurus Aug 13, 2008 5:07 PM EDT |
I run it on a real machine, not virtual. I love VMs, but sometimes they mess stuff up and give a false impression. |
| rijelkentaurus Aug 15, 2008 4:56 PM EDT |
I think that Beta2 is on the way down the pipe, I am currently downloading about 400ish MB of updates. EDIT: Total of 879 packages. |
| helios Aug 15, 2008 5:19 PM EDT |
I'm pretty excited about this release. Man, you talk about a comeback...wow. I wish these folks the best. Look...I know we argue a lot over distro loyalty here and everywhere...in fact, the internet has become the Linux Battlefield for Distro Wars but I have to be honest. I run a business that makes it's customers happy by installing Linux. It is way past political and philosophical dogma now...it's about making enough money to build the computers for my kids. Mandriva is the only distro that works without caveat on 80 percent of the hardware I install it on. You've probably read about the xorg disaster with ubuntu on 8 845/945 chipsets down in southern texas two weeks ago. The only reason I installed Ubuntu was because they DO have the best support community around. Unfortunately, they also have some of the oldest surviving show-stopping bugs in existence. No, it's past distro loyalty now...it's all about the distro I can put on, configure once and walk away from. I really, really hope Ubuntu gets there soon...the problems they are having coupled with the popularity of the distro (a cult of personality thing I think we can all agree), we are losing new converts back to windows quickly. Being number one means performiing like number one. Hopefully their devs will get it together soon. Anyone seen any sales figures for the boxed set of Ubuntu? I haven't seen anything yet. h |
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