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Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta 2 "Odin" released

qa.mandriva.com — Main changes since Beta 1: Kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8, with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2, i965 support, and new kernel factorization: normal, enterprise and legacy), KDE 3.5.4, GNOME 2.16 beta 2, New 'Ia Ora' Mandriva Theme (for now only included in GNOME), New VPN configuration tool (drakvpn), More applications migrated to XDG menus

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  • SubZ3r0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Mandriva formally mandrake. First linux distro I have ever used :)
    • jsleno, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Mandrake 10 was the first Linux distro I used that made me go "Wow, Linux can really do THAT?"

      What they need is something, like Ubuntu has with EasyUbuntu or Automatix, that configures online repositories automatically for you. I remember the easyurpmi website, but I don't know if anything has changed with it.

      I've moved on to the 'Buntus, but Mandrake still has a place in my heart
    • dragonmantank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same here for me. From there I tried Redhat, because it wasn't much different and seemed cooler. I tried out other distros but never found one that I really liked. It turned out all that it was was a gateway to harder things like Debian. Now I'm addicted to Ubuntu, and the withdrawal symptoms are too bad if I try to stick with anything else, or try to go sober.
    • fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Mandrake was great, and I'm sure alot of us chipped our teeth on it, (I even was a community member, read: I paid for the distro) but when the switchover to Mandriva happened I sopped using it.

      For the fledgling Linux user nowadays, there's a much simper ride with Ubuntu.
      Long live the .deb
    • Marthinus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2He he, seems there were a few people that started off with Mandrake. I started with Slackware 1.3.x, but my second distro was Mandrake and it was good. I am also on the Ubuntu bandwagon now, I am addicted to apt-get so I guess I will stay with Ubuntu for now.
    • Bluntzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i too was an ex mandrake/mandriva user that jumped the bandwagon, i really was disapointed when i signed up for the year community feature (125$US i think). after multiple dependancy issues with fresh install + current updates, learning anything was hard when it was broken to begin with. after my switch to kubuntu w/automatix i had a full running system in less than a few hours.
  • Tsiolkovsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It was also my first and I still like it the most. I've tried many other in between but I always return to Mandriva. Although these days I can hardly decide between Kubuntu and Mandriva.
  • aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I know they merged with another distro, but I really think that Mandrake is a better name. Mandriva sounds like a drag queen's stage name.
    Digg me down, I probably deserve it.
    • bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yeah but it was changed to stop them getting sued. They had a long drawn legal battle hanging over their heads for a while.

      I always liked Mandrake, I started on it. And urpmi is just as good as apt-get, yum,smart etc. but it's just messy. They don't offer a community release until long after the commercial on eis out. This is long after everyone else has abandoned this model. The artwork has looked pretty bad since 9.2 and it never really looked that polished.

      However as I said urpmi is a great tool for package management, it's nice to have media codecs out of the box and Mandrake Control Centre was way ahead of its time. I reckon it's still ahead of YaST in many ways.
    • CCRider, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Lamest.Linux.distro.name.ever.
  • kingo55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Looks like a good time to try it out...
  • doodlebumm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I hate it when products come out in one year, while their name sports a year somewhere in the future.
  • vonskippy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Mandriva = French for BrokeBack
    • EasY_TargeT, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2vonskippy = Fench for Nobody cares about me
  • twe4ked, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5HOLY ***** thats my name... YEHH... kind regards, odin
    • Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well if that isn't cool, I don't know what is.
  • exsst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta -1- screenshots
    http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=710&slide=10&title=mandriva+2007+beta+1+screenshots
  • Euan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Can it play WOW out of the box?
  • inkubux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3To me it's like Mandrake never improved since a couple of years. Mandrake was my 1st distribution also and I liked it at that time I think it was 9.2. But every now and then I recheck what's going on with Mandrake i'm always not impressed on how it's the same old distribution since 9.2 with newer packages.
  • Altotus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Euan, re: WoW

    Sort of. You need to 'urpmi wine' first and then run winecfg before you install WoW.
  • Prod_Deity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I, like most of you, started out with Mandrake (9.0 to be exact, I also was a community member until 9.2), but I will agree with most people here that Mandriva has started to lag behind many other distros.

    When it comes to RPM based distributions, my money is on Novell's offering.

    They're actually evolving, instead of just adding a different theme & an updated kernel.
  • glyj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0there are some features you don't find in every distro:

    - mandi (interactive firewall)
    - plug'nplay printer configuration and installation ("on the fly") (only suse do that too)
    - mandrivaonline (like microsoft update... )
    - good hardware detection on laptops (centrino duo - wifi)



  • glyj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and for the packages, they still have

    http://easyurpmi.zarb.org

    and a new one : smart-urpmi (with the update date of each mirror)

    http://wwwmandrivauser.de/smarturpmi
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