On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:03 am, nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito wrote:
Il giorno mar, 04/04/2006 alle 21.22 -0700, kai ha scritto:
By the way, not to take this too off-topic, but I just got the April Linux-Magazine Pro and it includes the DVD for Mandriva One. They had shipped Mandriva 2005 in the middle of last year.
I'll take it for a spin, as it is live.
you'll find a distro much more "unpolished" than SUSE actually is ...
Consider most such disks are made from downloading and modifying slightly public available distributions. For example I purchased a SuSE book that had SuSE10.0 in it. What I found was that the included disk contained a version of SuSE10.0 that was neither the OpenSuSE 10.0 version or the official SuSE 10.0 version but a modified version that would not up date by either OpenSuSE of official SuSE as it had been modified... Considering this what I suspect you have is this type of distribution. Now realize that Mandriva does not post it's latest version openly only a beta version. The current version is only available if you pay a yearly subscription fee equal to the fee that SuSE charge for a box set in which you get the books and the disks. Also consider, Mandrake before the merger was not noted for the quality of its software; apparently the could never manage to get over about 95% operating at any one time as on updates breakage was just about equal to fixes. As far as I can figure Mandrake 10.1 was the last usable distribution developed. The later versions appear to have nothing but file updates of the 10.1. Another point, is that there was a lot of discontent on the Mandriva BB; that is there was up-until a few months ago. Since then traffic has halved. My personal opinion of this is !@#$%^&* followed by a clinking sound of trash hitting the bottom of the circular bin. SOTL