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First Look at a Distro Changed: Mandriva LE 2005 |
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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
“Mandriva is new. How could there be updates?” you ask. Well, Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005, if you're not already aware, is actually Mandrake 10.2. The developers were working on this release before the purchase of Conectiva and test releases were named as such until they neared completion and readiness to ship the final code. So why not just call it Mandriva 10.2 since everyone knows it's just Mandrake anyway? I suspect it might be for several reasons.
Installing Mandriva was a breeze. As a matter of fact it always has been, at least for me. Even installation onto a VMWare virtual machine drive is smooth. I consider the Mandriva installer to be one of the “big three”, which is comprised of Red Hat's Anaconda, SUSE's YaST, and the Mandriva installer.
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