Mandriva Linux 2011TP (Tech Preview) – Quick Look

“After laying-off a significant portion of its employees, is
Mandriva going to remain a viable distribution? While many distros,
including Mandriva, are furiously working on their Spring 2011
releases, Mandriva announced a two-week slip from their previously
announced release dates. As a compensation, Mandriva gathered up
its packages from its 2011 development repositories (called
“Cooker”), and released a pre-alpha 2011 TP (Technology Preview)
iso. The coming Alpha version is due to be released February 14
with Alpha2 slated to be released February 28. So, here’s a quick
report on the Technology Preview release, and how things are
shaping up.

“Many of Mandriva’s recently laid off employees went on to form
a fork of Mandriva called “Mageia”. According to Susan Linton
(Owner, operator and exalted grand pubah of Tuxmachines.org),
Mageia Alpha1 is also due to be released mid February. It will be
interesting to compare the two Alpha1 releases.

“But, back to the Mandriva TP release. I downloaded the x86-64
bit TP ISO version yesterday (Feb 7), burned it, and proceeded to
install it on “newton”, my Acer Aspire 6930 Laptop (3 GB Ram,
Nvidia 9600M GS video card, 7200 RPM hard disk (an upgrade after
initial purchase), Intel wireless, and 1366×768 display).”

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