Mandriva 2006 (was Re:Idea on which Distros to support)

[Evan Leibovitch]

Madison Kelly wrote:

> Un, but I don't seem to be able to download Mandriva (it seems to be 
> for sale only now). I found Mandrake 10.1 (not sure how much has 
> changed) on linuxiso.com and I will test out my program on it.

Much too old.

Mandriva 2006 is out and it's extremely nice. It installed without a 
slip on both my laptop and Athlon64 server. 64-bit Ubuntu crashed trying 
to install on the server. Mandriva is the first-ever distro that doesn't 
have my Thinkpad crash when inserted or removed from its docking 
station. And it comes with OpenOffice 2.0.

The free download is right now limited to "Mandriva Club" members, and 
even that limited availability appears to be saturating both their FTP 
sites and their Torrent network.

The website "mandriva.com" is all about the commercial products. The 
site "mandrivalinux.com", while still encouraging people to support them 
by buying products or Club memberships, still offers free downloads via 
FTP or torrent:

http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3

Right now the only thing available for free download to non-club members 
is 10.1, but don't bother with that. The jump to 2006 is well worth the 
wait; it will be available to non-club members in a few weeks according 
to the website.

- Evan
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