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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

Posted Jan 20, 2007 0:07 UTC (Sat) by briangmaddox (subscriber, #39279)
In reply to: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux by moxfyre
Parent article: Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux

Well, 2001 WAS 6 years ago ;)

Really, now adays there's a distro out there for nearly everyone's personal needs. And with virtualization becoming more mainstream, it's getting easier to try out different ones, etc.

Personally, I like Mandriva and have had great luck with it. But I'm not everyone nor do I expect everyone to agree with me :)


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re: virtualisation

Posted Jan 20, 2007 3:31 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093) [Link]

Using Qemu (+ kqemu) makes trying out new distros really easy. If they have a LiveCD (eg Knoppix, Ubuntu, Mandriva, ...) then is is as simple as:
qemu -hdc downloaded_img.iso -boot c -m 256 -enable-audio

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