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Mandriva Linux 2010.0 Discussion Thread
Mandriva 2010.0 Released

Mandriva announces today the launch of the final version of Mandriva Linux 2010.0. Quicker, easier and even more secure, this new version brings you a host of innovative features.

Mandriva Linux 2010 is now available on public mirrors. Among many items you will find: improve boot time; clean and complete GRUB and install menu; use of Plymouth ; switch to Tomoyo security framework, provide GUI for common setup, integrated also in msec; guest account created on the fly when needed; packaging of Moblin, use it as default environment if stable enough when light hardware configuration is detected; auto-detection of local urpmi repositories..

• KDE 4.3.2
• GNOME 2.28.1
• Xfce 4.6.1
• Kernel 2.6.31.5
• X.org server 1.6.5

Goals for 2010.0 release :

• Improve boot time
• Clean and complete grub and install menu (failsafe, init3 entry, recovery entry, check tool for istallation media)
• Use of Plymouth and fallback on Splashy for non supported chipsets
• Switch to Tomoyo as security framework, provide GUI for common setup, integrated also in msec tool
• Guest account created on the fly when needed
• Packaging of Moblin, use it as default environment if stable enough when light hardware configuration is detected
• Manage end of life distribution through mdkonline applet
• Autodetection of local urpmi repositories
• Improve hybrid isos use

Mandriva 2010 comes with all new look and feel. Here is the artwork released with the final version.

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Powerpack | One | Free

Mandriva even improved the boot up with the inclusion of Plymouth. Check out the video here Dailymotion - Booting Mandriva Linux 2010 - une vidéo Hi-Tech et Science

Mandriva even added the Gnome shell (Gnome 3 preview) and Moblin wrapper for Netbook freaks .

Loaded with plethora of addons and major rehaul in the software stack. Mandrica is set to give tough competition to recently released Ubuntu

It seems Mandriva is now developing Plymouth along with Fedora and it is the default boot manager now

Release Tour : 2010.0 What's New - Mandriva Community Wiki
Errata : 2010.0 Errata - Mandriva Community Wiki
Release Notes : 2010.0 Notes - Mandriva Community Wiki

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Check out the short review of Mandriva 2010 Alpha here [Phoronix] Mandriva 2010 Alpha Brings Plymouth, New Features | Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 50 - The weekly newsletter for Linux users. - Softpedia

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For the first time MDV pushed something before schedule mandriva sa finally pushed the Alpha 2 out for testing

[vishalrao]

im setting up quad boot with win7, arch, karmic and a fourth one. instead of waiting for fedora 12 alpha coming out after a month, wanted to check out mdv but only 3gb dvd image available no cd iso

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^^Yes, CD iso will only be available once they reach the RC mark

[virus32win]

I have Mandriva 2010.0 Alpha 2 DVD downloaded from fastest Europe ftp servers.Going to quad boot with win7/server2008/winxp/Mandriva 2010.0 tomorrow.Lets hope it work with ATI690G otherwise i will change motherboard to NVIDIA7025/nForce 630a.

[vishalrao]

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yesssss! i have quad boot (and am unscathed) mwaahhahahaha!

install order: win7rc, arch, karmic, fedora11.

wasn't easy for me. required futzing around with karmic's grub2 and fedora11's legacy grub which demands an ext3 boot partition. setup and configuration was tricky to get right.

going to update fedora 11 to 12 (rawhide) next.

this is on my tablet pc, not yet man enough to try it on my main home desktop, maybe in a few days/weeks. thanks to initial pointers from ubuntuforums people, rest i managed myself by trial and error

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Mandriva 2010.0 will bring an improved network manager



netprofile screencast | Eugeni’s blog
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KDE 3.x is removed from repos now, and user will only use KDE4 from now on

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BETA version is out Will download tonight

[vishalrao]

Maybe I'll try the KDE One ISO... since I don't want to waste time with CDs/DVDs there is something "mandriva seed" script to dump to USB stick in the devel/tools directory: [Cooker] ANNOUNCE : first release of Mandriva Seed | cooker@mandrivalinux.org archives

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^^yea there is

Haven't tried it. I always use dd

[vishalrao]

edit: i cant find KDE One CD ISO... only 3.6 GB Free ISOs which I dont want to download... it looks like you have to join "Club" as paying member to get early access to their stuff? This reminds me of one of the reasons I think Mandriva sucks not to mention their annoying advertising.

Do you have a link to download KDE One ISO?

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^^Calm down They haven't uploaded the One iso and the club is long dead Its free for everyone [Club that is]

Mandriva Linux 2010 Beta version is now available on public mirrors. This Beta version is available through

* Free version, 32 and 64 bit DVDs
* One version, KDE or GNOME (note that all languages are not yet available) – One isos will be uploaded next week

The Official Mandriva Blog Blog Archive Mandriva Linux 2010 beta version is available

[vishalrao]

If Club is free I wonder why they posted a link to a new mirror with HTTPS password protected access heh. I guess I'll wait for a week then...

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^^Where did you see the HPPTS link, I haven't gone through them yet