Comments on: Mandriva Linux 2010 – Perhaps The Best Linux Release All Year

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:44:10 +0000

Are you the man on the moon or are you the man from mars?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:43:07 +0000

Are you the man on the moon??? or are you the man from mars. I’m fat

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:41:10 +0000

I am, Doe s this linux work very good?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:40:19 +0000

are you funnie?????

By: Heath

Heath — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:14:40 +0000

woah i hope you mean 512mb….

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:09:01 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10 is still the best O$ in my opinion, but run it under Gnome. Personally I hate KDE, but I normally keep a KDE distro running on my spare hard drive and Kubuntu is the worst of a bad bunch which is probably why Man 2010 will be popular. Interestingly Ubuntu is the only distro when I install it that automatically picks up my other hard drive. I shall give Man 2010 a spin on my VB. As for being slooow, I find all KDE slow, which is why I use the gnome as I don’t need the bling.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:29:15 +0000

I have been running 2009 spring with no problems. Decided to try to upgrade to 2010. Tried to boot One Live CD but it hangs at Local host login. I’ve learned this is root, which I entered. It then requests a command. Through reading I tried, service -f dm. This says stopped display manager, then started display manager, but still is requesting another command. It may be that I only have 512K ram, according to Jim above, I need at least 1Gb for this. Any comments appreciated.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:50:35 +0000

@Greg Zeng
LOL. PCLinuxOS is stable? like a rocking chair. I finally pulled that turd off my laptop and installed MDV 2010. It wasn’t that it crashed. Oh no. But things just didn’t work properly. A few wireless issues with Mandriva at first that were fixed with the latest kernel update.
Everything that you mentioned is available in ALL distros. But I see you drank the PCLINUX-wine kool-aid. Wine is also available on all Linux distributions. And OpenOffice is installable on all distributions as well. But most distributions do it the right way and not the half-assed non-packaged way that PCLinuxOS does.

This is by far the best release Mandriva has done. I quit using it after their 2005LE release. 2006 wasn’t bad but the bugs were outrageous. Ubuntu is on their way to being the next bug ridden distro.

Mandriva still has a few issues but it works great for my purposes. And on top of that I haven’t had to dive into the command line to fix the system, which is a common thing in other “newbie friendly” distros.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:54:22 +0000

Ok, i gave up.

2010 ended up where other non-functional distro’s go: the bin. I’ve encountered just one too many system freezes.
I’ll try opensuse next. But i’ve really got my eye set on sidux (if i can get grub to get nice with it).
It’s really quite remarkable how user-experiences differ so much. I suppose some of the difference can be attributed to hardware, some to software and a lot to the user in question.
So I definitely won’t blame mandriva. I’ve had a very good run with 2008.1 and i found a lot of the features in 2010 to be very well thought out. I hope a next version works better for me.

By: PeterC

PeterC — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:18:10 +0000

I don’t agree with the adulation. On 9 Nov 09 in the Mandriva support forum, someone asked the question: “on booting up the cd to install Mandriva, the local host login and password are requested. I do not know what to put in”. This has nor been answered and I join the original questioner with the same question in trying to install Mandriva One on a computer running Ubuntu. This sort of installation question is an immediate barrier to non-technical people installing Mandriva and the support from Mandriva’s forum does not appear adequate. A couple of Ubuntu derivatives on the same computer did not ask this question when installing. Poor show.