Mandriva Linux 2009 is released

[viking777]

Many of these annoyences are considered major new features by the kde devs

 

 

Well said

 

I don't know if you are using 3.5.10 on 2009, but if you aren't then do give it a try, I can't recommend it highly enough. You move from a KDE4 system where everything you want to work doesn't (whilst everything you don't want to work does) to a KDE3 system where everything works full stop.

 

During the whole development cycle of 2009 I have used KDE4, this has led me to so much frustration that I ended up hardly using 2009 at all, I preferred to use 2008.1 or Opensuse (both of which have 3.5.9 on). From the day I installed task-kde3, 2009 has gone back to being my default boot choice once again.

 

KDE4.0 was alpha software. KDE4.1 is beta. They have not released a working version yet in my opinion and they shouldn't foist their unfinished products on the public. Even that simple statement leaves out the argument that the whole background philosophy behind 4 is flawed which I think is the point that you are making.

[grendal]

When will the repo mirrors update to 2009? With easy urpmi I'm seeing 2008.1 and cooker only.

[Greg2]

When will the repo mirrors update to 2009? With easy urpmi I'm seeing 2008.1 and cooker only.

You will have to use this: easyurpmi, until one of our admins updates mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi. :)

 

Edit: mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi is now up to date.

 

Thanks paul!

Edited October 11, 2008 by Greg2

[adamw]

javaguy: you're likely suffering: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#..._not_created.29

 

there's a workaround there.

[dexter11]

I have some problem with KDE 3.5.10. Should I report them or KDE 3.5 is completele out of support now?

[adamw]

dexter: you can report them (check they're not dupes first). KDE 3 will be dropped for 2009 Spring, but if they have time, the KDE team will try and fix major issues with KDE 3 in 2009 as updates.

[Guest mustakim]

How to use Mandriva 2009 urpmi package manager?I browsing internet http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to install package. Click to official medias and add PLF media If you do not want to or cannot use the automatic set-up buttons above, you can run the following commands manually as root:

 

urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'

urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list'

urpmi --auto-select

urpmi.update -a

my urpmi for today

 

urpmi vlc dvd+rw-tools libdvdcss2 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 vlc-plugin-dvdnav faac gstreamer0.10-faac libfaac0 libquicktime-faac faad2 libfaad2_0 xine-faad libquicktime-faad mencoder wine playonlinux umtsmon ffmpeg

 

urpmi java-1.6.0-sun-plugin java-1.6.0-sun totem-mozilla mozilla-plugin-vlc wmwebcam webcam_server camorama kmplayer mplayer dkms-squashfs dkms-squashfs-lzma hfsplusutils hfsutils

my wget

 

Realplayer - Don't use it, better use vlc

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/seerofsouls.co...2007.0.i586.rpm

 

codec

wget http://easylinux.info/uploads/codecs.tar.gz

 

fonts

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/seerofsouls.co...4brs.noarch.rpm

 

adobe reader

wget http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/read....0.1-1.i386.rpm

 

skype

http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-2.0.0.72-mdv.i586.rpm

 

It's working on Mandriva 2009 KDE4 One!

 

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[Kieth]

mustakim, welcome to the board!