Guest s0me0ne Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 Just curious if Mandriva plans to put out a new cd 4 times a year. I'm sure this has been asked before though :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted June 3, 2007 Report Share Posted June 3, 2007 The plan is to issue a new release every 6 months. New Life Cycle press release Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest s0me0ne Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 makes sense they follow Ubuntu's release schedule, maybe Mandriva can get back on top, although they need to improve their web site a lot, it sux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 makes sense they follow Ubuntu's release scheduleNo, they're not following Ubuntu's release schedule. Before Ubuntu existed Mandriva (/Mandrake) had a 6-month release cycle. And so did other distributions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 s0me0ne has to improve his thoughts' release schedule, because his current one sucks... :P Errrm... where did I get that one from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 makes sense they follow Ubuntu's release schedule, maybe Mandriva can get back on top, although they need to improve their web site a lot, it sux Maybe I would use other words, but s0me0ne has a point. Mandriva's site is not intuitive enough, it is difficult to get there what you need (unless you are only looking for the download section). Their registry mechanism is also too complicated for me. On the other hand, their shortcoming does a fine service to MandrivaUsers.org. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Sorry but I do not see in which way the Ubuntu website is in any way better (more informative) than the Mandriva website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 (edited) Sorry but I do not see in which way the Ubuntu website is in any way better (more informative) than the Mandriva website. I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu's site. But I'll give you an example: If you click the support button on the upper left toolbar (because there is also support in the Products/Services pop-up menu, and Support under the individuals window, which leads to a different page than the other two options!), you don't get support. You get an introduction for all kinds of support: enterprise, individuals, hardware (which is not on the same level as individual/enterprise), and suggestions: register your product, buy partnership... It's mainly a commercial to the club, which is important, but why to mislead the user to think that he is going to find support there? Let's call the child by his name and title it "Why join the club" or something like that. Under support, just put a huge link to mandriva's wiki or documentation, IMHO that would do the trick. Take me for example, up to this very minute I'm not sure where the Mandriva's official documentation lies. Edited June 6, 2007 by yossarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Sorry but I do not see in which way the Ubuntu website is in any way better (more informative) than the Mandriva website. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ If you see something like that in the Mandriva site, then your browser is way better than mine... :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Why compare wiki.ubuntu.com to www.mandriva.com ? It would seem to make more sense to compare it to wiki.mandriva.com =) although we'd probably still lose... work on the MDV wiki is very active, though, so that'll change. here's the new home page for the wiki we're working on: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/HomeNew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 (edited) I was talking about ubuntu.com and mandriva.com, but comparing the ubuntu wiki to the mandriva wiki, I still do not see what is soo much better on the ubuntu wiki, but it is right there should be a direct link to the wiki on the Mandriva site admitted the support link is really misleading, but to be honest I never needed or used it Edited June 7, 2007 by lavaeolus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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