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masinick
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 Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2025 4:54 pm Post subject: Mandriva Linux 2025 RELEASED! |
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mandriva Mandriva Linux 2025 has been released: "Mandriva today is proud to release its brand new distribution: Mandriva Linux 2025. The key innovation of Mandriva Linux 2025 is the spectacular AIGLX and Xgl 3D-accelerated desktop. Mandriva is the only distribution to provide both technologies and is particularly happy to have achieved this major breakthrough in desktop appearance. In addition, a new theme named Ia Ora ('hello' in French Polynesian) has been introduced. To match everyone's needs, Mandriva Linux 2025 includes the latest innovations in the fields of office suite applications, Internet, multimedia and the new virtualization and 3D-accelerated desktop technologies."
See http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03742#0 |
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lberg
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2025 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesome!! As soon as the "rush" for it is over, I'm DL'n it!
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coastie
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2025 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| WOW, two major distros released on the same day, looks like i have something to play with. |
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Germ
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2025 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Unless you are a Club member you won't be able to get ISOs for at least a couple of weeks. You can, however, do a FTP install.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2025 12:29 am Post subject: |
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 i have a buddy who is a club member |
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masinick
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2025 2:17 am Post subject: Do it by the Cooker! |
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| Germ wrote: | | Unless you are a Club member you won't be able to get ISOs for at least a couple of weeks. You can, however, do a FTP install. |
I've installed the latest Mandriva software using the Cooker many times, though my current urpmi settings for the Cooker are old and stale, and need to be repointed to the latest renamed and revamped environment. Can't remember if I've done a Mandriva FTP installation before or not. I know I have done a SuSE FTP installation - for the longest time, that was the ONLY way to download and install it, otherwise you had to purchase a commercial version.
I was once a member of the Club, but I don't use Mandriva very often any more, so being a club member no longer makes sense for me. I do have a Mandrake hat from the days when I ordered a Mandrake 9.0 DVD and gave the company some bucks!  |
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lberg
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2025 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| It seems like I can get a bittorrent link from the site, but I haven't clicked on it, because I don't have bittorrent software, and I'm not a club member
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masinick
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2025 4:50 pm Post subject: Anyone using the current version (or a recent version)? |
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| lberg wrote: | | It seems like I can get a bittorrent link from the site, but I haven't clicked on it, because I don't have bittorrent software, and I'm not a club member |
Has anyone on the list been working with the Beta and RC versions of Mandriva 2025? I used to test all but maybe the very first Beta and early Alpha releases back in the Mandrake project, but I haven't been doing nearly as much with it since the Mandriva rebranding.
I have Mandriva Cooker installed right now and it works fine, except for the fact that I am not correctly hooked up to the appropriate Cooker servers, so urpmi updates don't work right.
Six to nine months ago, I had some problems working with Mandriva One. That was the first time a Mandriva release did not work well for me. I followed up and have since had much better results.
Mandriva, along with Slackware, have a special place in my Linux history because Slackware was the first Linux distro I used, and Mandrake (the old Mandriva) was the first distro I used for every day desktop productivity at home (and Caldera Open Linux eDesktop 2.4 was the first distro I ever ran on a desktop with a network --- on a laptop no less --- too bad Ransom Love left Caldera and was replaced by Darl McBride, who proceeded to attack Linux because of the decline of SCO UNIX, the most popular Intel based UNIX system of the nineties).
Given all of that history, I still like to keep my eyes on the progress of Mandriva, and I generally install every major release.
Has anyone been running it recently, and can you tell me your experiences with it, pro and con? |
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Germ
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| I tried the last RC. Couldn't get x to start. apparently it was a problem with the xorg driver. supposedly fixed in the final.
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lberg
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| Well, masinick, I can't exactly tell you a lot of pros and cons, but I am very happy with Mandriva Free 2025. I am pretty happy with it. I haven't had many chances to mess with it now that school has started, but over the summer I did some with it. I am now running it instead of Fedora Core 5. Everything worked very well "out of the box" except near the end of the summer, I tried to get urpmi working. I'm not sure if I ever did. Can't really remember, although I think I did. I think I remember that everything took so long with urpmi that I never really used it that much. I mean, contacting the server....etc. It would be nice, since it does dependencies.......and then I installed Audacity, and I haven't gotten that to work yet. It says Host Error when I start it up. I can't record or play audio......I thought maybe I'd just wait for Mandriva 2025 to see if it gets fixed.
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VHockey86
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lberg
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masinick
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2025 3:01 am Post subject: Given that, do you have a torrent open? |
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| VHockey86 wrote: | | lberg wrote: | | Awesome!! As soon as the "rush" for it is over, I'm DL'n it! |
If you use torrents... the bigger the rush the better
(higher number of peers increases average swarm speed) |
Are you using torrents and do you have one open?
The problem I find when I open a torrent is that if I do it while I am doing other work, such as Internet browsing, sending and receiving Email, or downloading other work, I find that torrent tends to consume all available bandwidth. If I start it when I go to bed and stop it when I get up, that's fine. I do not want something to virtually take over my machine, which i frequently find torrent doing.
Another drawback to torrents is that I frequently get bad ISO images when I use torrents, apparently from a mix of dialup connections and unreliable transports, whereas when I use broadband, I get what I ask for.
Bottom line: I don't mind sharing bandwidth occasionally, but frankly, it comes out of my broadband budget and it doesn't seem to be a fair trade, it's more like if I give 90% out, I get 10% back. I'm willing to do that when I am not busy, but in the end, I'd rather pay for what I want when I want it, so I am not a bit bittorrent fan. |
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lberg
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2025 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| All I could find was torrents. Is there a site with regular .iso D/L's? Becuase I looked in the /pub/mandrake stuff, and all I found in the 2025 iso folder was the changelog.
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tlmiller
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2025 3:09 am Post subject: Re: Given that, do you have a torrent open? |
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| masinick wrote: | | VHockey86 wrote: | | lberg wrote: | | Awesome!! As soon as the "rush" for it is over, I'm DL'n it! |
If you use torrents... the bigger the rush the better
(higher number of peers increases average swarm speed) |
Are you using torrents and do you have one open?
The problem I find when I open a torrent is that if I do it while I am doing other work, such as Internet browsing, sending and receiving Email, or downloading other work, I find that torrent tends to consume all available bandwidth. If I start it when I go to bed and stop it when I get up, that's fine. I do not want something to virtually take over my machine, which i frequently find torrent doing.
Another drawback to torrents is that I frequently get bad ISO images when I use torrents, apparently from a mix of dialup connections and unreliable transports, whereas when I use broadband, I get what I ask for.
Bottom line: I don't mind sharing bandwidth occasionally, but frankly, it comes out of my broadband budget and it doesn't seem to be a fair trade, it's more like if I give 90% out, I get 10% back. I'm willing to do that when I am not busy, but in the end, I'd rather pay for what I want when I want it, so I am not a bit bittorrent fan. |
Most torrent client support bandwidth limiting, so you can cap how fast it downloads or uploads. I often will do this if I'm trying to get other work done.
As for the sharing, I've found the exact opposite. With torrents, I find that I usually finish downloading and have to leave it seeding for 3-4x the amount of time it took me to download to get my share ratio to 100% for any particular torrent. With distro .iso's, I usually try to seed until my share ratio is ~1000%.
Only once in several years have I goten a BAD .iso. I've gotten iso's that were incorrectly named before, but even that is rather rare.
I personally prefer torrents to all other forms of download. And I hate buying media, since I just rip it to .iso and stick it on my local file server anyway, just wastes physical media.
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