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Mandriva 2009 -The Ubuntu Killer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 8, 2008

“Next test:
The infamous Firefox + Youtube multitab clipathon. I am tired as I
write this…. yaaaawn, why? Because I was up until 4am in the
morning watching non-stop boxing videos last night. All my old
favourites, Tyson, Benn, Eubank Naseem Hamed, I did a tour of the
80’s through to the present day. Not a blip from Firefox. WTF!?
have the Mandriva devs managed to do that Ubuntu and Debian can’t?.
So, a quick round up, I know this is a long post, but those things
had to be said.

“Mandriva isn’t the fastest distro around, and I haven’t been
playing around long enough to verify the stability of Kde4 but….
on newer boxes with 2+ Gb RAM and 2+ Gb processors I bet it
flies.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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