“After Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core 5 and SUSE 10.1 were released in
the first two quarters of this year, I started to wonder about
Mandriva. Its last release came last October and the next one was
not going to be here until the end of the year. Of course, Mandriva
One was released a few months ago, but it was only a live version
of Mandriva 2006, and as such, once installed on the hard drive it
didn’t add anything new. I decided to take a look at it, to see
what it gave to the user and how it could still compete after all
other three major distributions had had their release. Was there
still any reason for people to use Mandriva over Fedora, SUSE and
Ubuntu? Had the distribution become outdated? I was about to find
out…”