Mandriva Alpha 2012

ComputerSaysNo · Sep 19, 2012

Interested to see it's still alive

Per Øyvind Karlsen has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2012: "As many of you might already be aware of, our first Mandriva Linux 2012 alpha has been ready for release for almost a week now, yet it only made its way to the public mirrors today, so with that I declare it as officially released! Some of the highlights since 2012 Tech Preview include: faster, smaller and much improved installer; installer text-mode is now working again; a slimmer, much-improved and fixed rescue mode; dual architecture CD image has been improved with a more complete set of packages filling it and also LXDE now shipped with it and installed by default; switch to Linaro's GCC 4.7 branch has been completed; HAL has finally been put to rest for good....
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NormanF · Sep 19, 2012

Mandriva's parent company divested all its assets to an open source foundation following their emergence from bankruptcy.

They intend to copy the successful business models of Red Hat and Novell and sell Linux to the corporate market as servers and long term maintenance Linux software.

For the desktop, the open community will drive development and product adoption and this has reversed Mandriva's previous closed source model. With the release of this alpha, a troubled distro appears headed for a brighter future.

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