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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva LinuxHere comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva LinuxPosted Jan 19, 2007 23:03 UTC (Fri) by moxfyre (guest, #13847)In reply to: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux by Richard_J_Neill Parent article: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux
Interesting... I believe urpmi was brand spankin' new when I was using Mandrake. I vaguely recall trying to set it up and having problems. Obviously the automatic dependency handling of urpmi was a big improvement!!!
In general though, I found Mandrake very rough around the edges... while it was innovative in terms of GUI admin tools, none of them seemed to work correctly enough of the time to make them preferable to the command line. By contrast, I find that while Gnome System Tools are a bit limited in what they can do... they do it very reliably and straightforwardly.
I'm glad to hear that they've improved the QC of Mandrake, though. I'll have to take a crack at it again.
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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux Posted Jan 21, 2007 21:27 UTC (Sun) by gfranken (subscriber, #22822) [Link] Well, the first 2007 release was not good. You had to be a privatedetective to get the repositories configured for urpmi to work correctly. In fact, the version of the updater in the 2007.0 release was buggy and didn't work. Turns out (near as I can figure) that the Mandriva developer responsible for the updater went on vacation right before the 2007.0 release. He didn't return until just before the freeze for the Mandriva 2007 release, and the ultimately released updater was defective.
Typical keystone-cop Mandriva stunt--they manage to do so many things
Maybe I'll come back some day, but Mandriva needs to realize that the
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