Linux Distro Review: Mandriva Spring 2010.1 (Linux.com)
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier takes
a look at Mandriva's latest release. "
Mandriva is a bit of a standout among Linux distributions. It doesn't quite fit with the community distributions, and it doesn't quite fit with the corporate distros either. Mandriva provides a free distribution on DVD that's all open source software, and a PowerPack edition that contains some proprietary software like support for non-free multimedia codecs. The business model that Mandriva has pursued over the past 10 years hasn't been particularly successful - the company has been through bankruptcy once and has been having financial problems again recently. But the company does provide a solid and user-friendly Linux distro. To test out Mandriva 2010.1, I grabbed the DVD for x86 and gave it a spin. Mandriva also provides a live CD version, but I wanted to try out GNOME, KDE, and LXDE."