Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jun 2007 22:13 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Mandriva has released Corporate Desktop 4.0 "Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Corporate Desktop 4.0, the brand new version of its enterprise-dedicated work station. Ergonomically designed, secure, comprehensive, easy to use and to administer: by consulting its corporate clients and building on its own expertise in the desktop area, Mandriva developed Corporate Desktop 4.0, a distro that can be installed in less than 15 minutes and extensively customized thanks to a new post-installation tool."
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Superb!
by Supreme Dragon (1.16) on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 00:07 UTC
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"Ergonomically designed, secure, comprehensive, easy to use and to administer"

There are many corporate desktops that are in desperate need of these features. Looks like a good OS!

Download link?
by shapeshifter (2.52) on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 00:41 UTC
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Link to download iso?

RE: Download link?
by AdamW (3.4) on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 01:20 UTC in reply to "Download link?"
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you can sign up for a trial version at https://my.mandriva.com/cd4/trial . well, not really a trial version, you get the whole distro plus access to updates for one month.

No patent protection
by davidiwharper (2.88) on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 10:26 UTC
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I'm shocked. Shocked, I say! What can they have been thinking? :-)

RE: No patent protection
by _mikk (2.16) on Fri 22nd Jun 2007 20:10 UTC in reply to "No patent protection"
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Yeah...

In todays world, it actually might be a necessity, as no CIO would want to risk his job by a perception of a great threat imposed by using open source software without legal protection to go along with it.

Unfortunately, ***sigh***, I'm not being sarcastic here

RE[2]: No patent protection
by raver31 (4.68) on Sat 23rd Jun 2007 08:02 UTC in reply to "RE: No patent protection"
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Yes, and what is even more unfortunate, is that no-one here believed you were being sarcastic.

RE: No patent protection
by juno_106 (3.8) on Sun 24th Jun 2007 02:39 UTC in reply to "No patent protection"
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Mandriva doesn't have a very good reputation but at least they didn't fall into the dark side :-)