Improvements: “New 3D desktop support (both with AIGLX and Xgl) and a new tool to configure it (drak3d); new ‘One’ CD with 3D desktop support (AIGLX and Xgl, both on KDE and GNOME, autodetection of the best 3D solution); new rpmdrake; more applications migrated to XDG menus; GNOME 2.16 RC1; kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8 with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2); KDE 3.5.4; new ‘Ia Ora’ Mandriva theme (still only included in GNOME); new VPN configuration tool (drakvpn); new firewall.” Get it from the mirrors.
Unfortunately, the Compiz setup seems to have the same issue all others I’ve tried have – it doesn’t work across my entire widescreen (1280×800) setup. Rather strange.
I hope this works out to be a good, polished release for Mandriva though. I used to be a really big fan of their work.
I see the same bug, see : http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24650
What’s your hardware ? I saw this with Intel chipset ( 8M of RAM )
IMHO I will need to do an upstream bug report …
Thom, it’s Ia Ora (upper-case I, not lower-case l). This is what’s on our site now, I don’t know if it was wrong when you copy / pasted it or if it somehow got changed in transition, but can you correct it please? Thanks
Hi,
I’ve been testing this version and it is great. Very easy to make it 3D and continues to be a nice version to have.
Now with Mandriva One it is really easy to check how it works.
There are two anoying problems anyway:
a) Konqueror’s location bar don’t work as spected. In the past anything that couldn’t be resolved was reconverted into a google query. That is very very useful. Now it tryes to resolve and if it cannot it simply sends an error message. That’s very anoying because it makes you decide if you are doing a search or directly typing a lossely typed url. It was totally unnecessary before.
b) Compiz: Compiz is great in the very difficult things but its a poor kwin replacement in the easy things. Here you have some examples of what Compiz cannot do that you NEED if you used them with kwin.
– Move windows to the top and to the bottom.
– Remove windows borders.
– Move a window to another desktop from its window bar.
– Attach a window to all Desktops.
If you got used to those possibilities you surely found quite impossible to go back to less efficient, beauty cool interfaces.
i am a SUSE KDE fan, but i am tempted to try it.
I am amazed by how things proceed. On a Sempron 2400+, the system needs now 23 seconds for booting from grub to gdm, 36 seconds from grub to a working Gnome desktop with no harddisk activity. Two thumbs up.
The Ia Ora theme needs one minor correction imho. The window-border is invisible, thus it is a bit problematic if you want to resize windows and looks a bit weird. A 1 or 2 px border would be enough for making the Metacity even better. The gtk-engine is nice though.
Last year their release was already outdated at release time (compared to what other distros offered at time), but now this looks much better.
Nice to see Mandriva trying to catch up with other big desktop oriented distros (most notably Ubuntu and OpenSuse). They are the only one still doing it the old way, while others rely heavily on community based development which so far produced great results.
Actually, we started doing community development a long time before Ubuntu or SUSE. Although not, of course, before Debian or Slackware.
The Mandriva volunteer community is hugely involved in Mandriva development, from packaging (for instance, the maintainer of the Mandriva rpm package – which anyone would agree is rather important! – is a community volunteer) to translation, testing (via Cooker, the Mandriva development distribution, which is and always has been fully available to the public) and so forth. If you removed all the effort put in by the community, the quality of the distro would suffer massively.
It’s Ubuntu and newly-Open SUSE who are new to the community development party
I thought it was a beheaded duck ?
I think it is a big mistake to make only one release by year. 2 releases, something like every 6 months are a far better idea.
I will grab this beta and test it in VMWare Server, but it will be hard to beat Ubuntu.
Note : I’ve used Mandrake 9.x version. 10.x were completely unusable on my computer.
Note : I’ve used Mandrake 9.x version. 10.x were completely unusable on my computer.
I liked 8.2,9.1,i abandoned after 10,10.1..
I think they have slept quite a while or simply didn’t feel what’s outside their headquarters.
I like 1 release a year. It’s waaaay easier to be able to work with Linux vs just keep installing Linux
I believe Mandriva did a poll among it’s paying customers, and most of us (I’m a paying customer) wanted a 1-year release cycle.
For latest-version addicted users[*] there’s always cooker, which is a lot of fun
[*] I was one of those before
Peace!
Yeah, isn’t it odd how on the one hand the guy complains that 10.x wasn’t stable enough, but then turns around and complains about their improved release cycle.
I suppose I’d agree about 10.x not being the greatest Mandrake releases to come down the pipe, but I’ve been on 2006 since it pretty much came out and it’s been one of the most rock solid distros I’ve ever used. And after trying out the 2007 beta for a bit, it looks like 2007 is going to be just as good. Now if I could only get them to change the name back to Mandrake.
Now if I could only get them to change the name back to Mandrake.
They can’t. The Hearst Corporation would reopen their Mandrake the Magician lawsuit. See http://lwn.net/Articles/144097/ for the settlement announcement and http://www.a42.com/node/118 for background.
I wondered how many jumped after 8.2 or at the latest 9.1?
I loved 8.2 and liked 9.1 but even 9.1 seemed to be a bit less finished to me than 8.2 – after that I stopped bothering…
does under kde with AIGLX, Xgl we can use kwin?
Well I guess you could enable AIGLX and then run kwin as the window manager, but it would be rather pointless as kwin does not do any compositing. So you wouldn’t notice any difference.