Comments on: Mandriva 2007 Beta 2 - short review

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:58:45 +0000

I tried Mandriva 2007 Beta 2 but it would not install on my SATA HD (can not find the HD). It did install on my PATA drive. Also the RPM installer did not function.Looks good tho.

By: michuk

michuk — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:54:03 +0000

The selection of default apps installed is basic only for the free edition (but still lots better than kubuntu/ubuntu).

Well, that’s very subjective you know. I personally like the Kubuntu defaults a lot (Mandriva is not bad either, to make it clear).

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:08:43 +0000

I personally have used the free Community edition for years and changing/customizing your desktop is really very easy so to answer your question, no.

The selection of default apps installed is basic only for the free edition (but still lots better than kubuntu/ubuntu). Upgrading apps or adding new ones you can choose from repositories of many thousands of software packages, urpmi is your friend.

By: david syes

david syes — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:00:43 +0000

Will I be able to replace ksplash or whatever is keeping me from seeing the pre-login background? I suppose since this is the “Free” version, I should not complain, but Ubuntu/Kubuntu let me show the user pics, the panel with single image, and desktop background changing when all users have logged our or are none are yet logged in. Is Mandriva purposely doing that to irritate users into buying the non-free version?

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By: Kensai

Kensai — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:47:28 +0000

I use the Gnome version as well and runs perfectly stable, not a single crash yet, and is just a beta2. But I see Mandriva is taking now the right dirrection after their disaster with 2006.

By: AdamW

AdamW — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:07:24 +0000

Thanks for the review. On the default applications, Fred (Crozat, our GNOME packager) likes as a matter of policy to stay as close to upstream GNOME as possible. Also, in practical terms, I’d be opposed to Banshee being the default music player because it’s still way too broken and unstable - it still has trouble dealing with my moderately large music collection, and tends to crash a lot. Personally I use muine, but I think rhythmbox is a perfectly sensible default.

I’m trying to find out what we’re going to do about desktop search for 2007. We got rather burned by including Kat in 2006, so it may be a case of once bitten, twice shy…