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Rhakios · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: Mandriva 2008.0 released

I must say I'm surprised no one else has bothered to mention this. You can find the official notice on the club website here.

Not much to get excited about really. Some mirrors still haven't updated, so configuring updates can be problematic. The first boot registration/survey thingy doesn't seem capable of recognising existing membership (albeit aluminium) of the Mandriva Club. Hence I didn't bother with the rest of their survey either.

Cosmetically, it looks a lot better than some of their recent efforts. You can get rid of the stupidly large menu button, but then you're left with a silly looking star symbol, needs more hacking to be got rid of. The default theme in KDE doesn't look as bad as last time.

Getting vmware tools installed is interesting, for me it required editing the Makefile and running various make options. Ho hum, Mandriva still underwhelms me.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:06 pm Post subject: RE: Mandriva 2008.0 released

Bring back Gael!
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spottedcat · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: Re: Mandriva 2008.0 released

Rhakios · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: RE: Re: Mandriva 2008.0 released

I think it more likely that the stingy so-and-so can't afford to download it with his miserable download limit. If he'd stump up for a decent ISP, then there'd be no problem. Still, he hasn't come begging for a DVD, so perhaps he's waiting for it to appear on a cover disc.
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flashdangerpants · LXF regular Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:56 pm Posts: 101

i'm running mandriva 2008, the word that springs to mind is "adequate". except when i turn my consideration to the metisse 3d desktop, when a new word springs to mind (which rhymes with 'sprite').

Rhakios · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject: RE: Re: Mandriva 2008.0 released

Perhaps they should try that as their new brand name: Mandriva 2008 Perfectly Adequate Pack.

I have seen some people lauding its capability to set up compiz-fusion. Does that work okay? Obviously I'm not able to try that out under VMWare.
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flashdangerpants · LXF regular Joined: Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:56 pm Posts: 101

yes, it installs nvidia drivers out of the box and basic compiz-fusion set up takes about 2 or 3 mouse clicks. so in that respect we may award them a mark of adequate++