Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Review

Mandriva 2008.1 Spring GNOME

Mandriva (when it was called Mandrake) it was solid, it was pretty, and it made Linux feel welcoming and fun. If one thing can be said throughout the releases since Mandrake 8, it's that whatever the company name might have been the distribution has remained consistently pleasant to look at.

Software selection is OpenOffice, GIMP, Firefox, and Pidgin were present. Neither Java nor GCC were installed by default on this one either. Innotek Virtualbox (VM software) was on the disc. Game in 3D, there is OpenArena, Wormux, Frozen-Bubble and Chromium.

Unfortunately, neither Java nor GCC were installed by default on this one either. Eclipse was included on the DVD, but without a proper version of Java that make dead in the water for work-related programming.