shengchieh Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Hi folks! I may or may not be back. Want to give a couple of distros a spin including Mandriva. Should I try Mandriva 2008.1 spring RC1 or Mandriva 2008 (release earlier this year)? How stable is Mandriva 2008.1 spring RC1? Sheng-Chieh [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisC-SM Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 (edited) Wait for 3 days from now and get RC2... it's worth to try it :) Cheers Luis EDIT: The reason why I tell u to wait is because the update is about 600 MB.... I think it's worth to wait 3 days, isn't it? Edited March 15, 2008 by LuisC-SM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 (edited) I' m running RC1 One since its out, and it is stable on my laptop (Acer aspire 5315). Everything works just fine. I have no other version of Mandriva on that Laptop. Edited March 15, 2008 by willie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking777 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 (edited) Perfectly stable on my laptop as well, although I would never run a testing distro on its own, always dual boot with a stable version is my advice, but give it a go definitely. As Luis said it is probably worth waiting for RC2 now if it is only 3 days away. Edited March 19, 2008 by viking777 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisC-SM Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 As Luis said it is probably worth waiting for RC2 now if it is only 3 days away. Just Today........... ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr.../iso/2008.1/rc2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shengchieh Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Thank for answering. It turns out my question was moot since both 2008.1 RC1 aand 2008 bombed. But I'm typing this from 2008.1 RC2. Very nice - faster than 2006 and less buggy so far. Btw, someone ought to go on the wiki, http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_RC_2 and add the locations of all the download site. It tooks me 9-10 hrs to download the DVD-free version from GA tech. All I could figure out was carroll and gatech were in USA (i'm in Bay area - SF/SJ/O). When I downloaded RC!, I didn't realized that I was downloading from Europe. Sheng-Chieh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 (edited) my hacky set of grep, cut and sed commands for generating the mirror list isn't that smart...:) Edited March 25, 2008 by adamw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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