It's official: mandriva 2010 is the sh*t, not enough data for ubuntu 9 10.

ubuntu and mandriva both were gud.... but ubuntu was better than mandriva

Ubuntu gets pwned again.... Mandriva 2010.0 is perfect.

personally, comparing mandriva to ubuntu is like comparing chocolate to sh!t. There's just no comparison. Mandriva 2010 wins, hands down.

Mandriva 20010 with KDE 4.3 made me switch from Ubuntu to KDE. It is extremely good, easy to use and it's control center is awesome, nothing like it in Ubuntu. And KDE looks absolutely fantastic, finally a modern Linux desktop.

Mandriva wins outright. This post tells us why. Very nice review btw.

I've Been Using Mandriva Sinse 2004 When It Was Called Mandrake Linux And Threw All Those years Ive Tried Them All, Red Hats, Didn't Like It, Ubuntu, Didn't Mind It But It Couldn't Match Mandrake Then And Never will, Su, Didn't Like It. I Quite Trying After Gutoo Or Gootoo Ha, What ever it's Called, The Thing Is, Mandriva For So Long Has Had So Many People Working On It And Still Does And That's Why It's So Good, No Other One Will Catch up Too it Now, It's The Leading Linux, It's The One That Took Ove On Lunix Which use To be The Only Linux system In 1994, I'm 51 Years Old and started on Computers Before Windows Was Made, It Was only Dos, Then Windows 3.0, upgraded To Windows 3.11, Then To 95 Which I skipped And Went To WinNT, Then Win2000, Then WinXP The Switched To Mandrke Linux Then Started Trying All Other Linux Ones And Always Went Back To Mandrake Wich Is Of corse Mandriva 2010 Powerpack Now And I'll Never Change, I Love This Operating System Mandriva, I Have Windows Vista Buisness Operating System And It'll Never reach Mandrivas Power Ever, I Know It For a Fact, Bill Gates Is So Scared Right Now And Why, He Know What I've Known In 2004, Mandrke Is Taking Over, Infact, All Linux Systems Are Taking Ove And He knows It, But I Believe, Nothing Will Ever Catch Up With Mandriva PowerPack, That's My Reality HAHAHA

Ok Al, let me set this one straight.This is a perfect example of someone who thinks because he's older, he must be wiser. Seems to me youre more like an old dog who wont learn new tricks. Just because you can name all the Windows OS's that have come out since the early 90's, it doesnt make you an expert computer guy, just someone who can remember 20 years back. If I was Bill Gates, I would surely be laughing (but not scared) right now- youve bought almost every Windows Version he has ever created! Good job making him richer. If you used/liked Windows, Mandriva, OpenSuse and Gentoo, it seems like you like OS's that you can use with only a mouse. Are you scared to type commands in terminal? Well pops, let me break this down to you...I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but here is a small piece of background for my own credibility...Im 30 years old and have been working with computers since before I was 10 (Tandy computers and Commodore 64).I became interested in different OS's when DOS 5.0 came out and I had to learn how to manually change Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files to use a 2400bps modem and a 2xspeed CD ROM with my Sound Blaster sound card. I went from Windows 3.0 to 3.1 to 3.11 all the way to Windows 7 now. Along the way I learned everything I could about them and even received training for MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer) and CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Administrator) Meanwhile I've used almost every Linux OS on distrowatch's website and let me tell you this. Mandriva IS a nice looking OS and it performs well out the box but...for an OS thats been around the longest why are they not that popular? Because they have a crappy philosophy. Make regular users PAY for their software that many other 3rd party developers dont even make programs for. Need a different media player instead of the included one? Good luck making it work properly. Have a Dropbox account to store all your files online? yeah right. Dont even try to get Skype working easily. Whats the point of having a pretty blue desktop if nobody makes applications for it? You said Vista Business Center can never reach Mandriva's Power? What exactly do you mean by that? It sounds like youre reciting their web page...I suppose they have you thinking cause it says "PowerPack," it must be powerful. As far as Linux, I never liked the name "Ubuntu," but right now its #1 for a reason, First off, it's free, secondly, there a thousands of programs in hundreds of repositories for every application you can think of. The support is awesome if youre not afraid to put down the mouse and type. If you like the way Mandriva looks, get Kubuntu, the KDE version is most similar to Mandriva. Or get Ultimate Edition 2.4 which is Ubuntu that uses KDE and Gnome programs along with the most amount of included applications. Now UBUNTU ULTIMATE 2.4 IS THE MOST POWERFUL LINUX DISTRO OUT THE BOX. Sorry to smash your reality, but if you want something that looks like Windows and all you do is use OpenOffice, and a calculator, I guess Mandriva can do the job for you. If you want something that offers stability, security, support, useful programs, and relatively easy to use and a highly configurable desktop environment, then Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic or Ultimate Edition 2.4 Jaunty (x64) are the best...for now. And you can always use VirtualBox to run Windows XP/Vista/Win7 in Ubuntu, or the application "Wine" to run Windows Programs-which comes with Ultimate Edition anyways

@ TechnoChronic Man, you are an idiot with 20 years of self-image problems. Everyone is entitled to like or dislike any OS. Your 2-penny comment is too long.

hey Priscilla I think that TechnoChronic = the best comment on this page, I think that the idiot is you, and what if he is a 30 years old geek, he is right, I found his opinion on several forums written by others

ubuntu is the best linux distro i have ever used. So i am going to download mandriva. after i download i going to install it use but i am not sure it is the best linux distro.

OK, another 30-year old geek here. I'm a .net (C#/asp.net) developer, so I spend most of my time on programming on the "windows stack". With that said, I am typing this from Chrome running on Ubuntu 9.10, my HTPC is running Ubuntu 8 something, my NAS/Subversion server is running Ubuntu (don't even remember what version. Last time I touched that box was in 2008). I've tried "a lot" of distros starting with RH 7 many moons ago and so far haven't found anything that I like more than Ubuntu. It works; the support is simply awesome; there are so many apps out that it's almost unhealthy ...

What Andrej said about KDE 4.3 is cool it is amazing to look at, trouble is its so slick and sexy it shows up the seventies look of many applications, also I found on a more practical note it did not perform so well with Wine and it would not run Javelin in the DOS box emulator which is an amazing little interface. The old KDE did this so I suppose there is a sacrifice here like Vista hated Visual Basic 6 which I loved for its exemplary intuitiveness. But I loathed Vista as an operating system. I find Linux far more fun to use than windows but I prefer KDE to Ubuntu. I tried Mandriva and was very impressed with it You used to have to be in the club to get it and its free now but if you want all the games compatibility you've got to pay for the premium version. I use a brilliant integrated software package called Smartware which is ideal for Linux because it was written in Unix, it out performs Open Office and Bill Gates stuff because its far more integrated and dynamic.What Linux needs is a Pied Piper to round up all the lost Orphans which makes clutter crashes.

Ubuntu kills mandriva!! lol seriously though, ubuntu 9.10 blows just about any other distro away. ..................... ..................if you know how to use it. lol really folks, there is no comparison. Ubuntu is amazing. and Ive used most of the good distros that exist. (bad ones to!) lol if you have a weak PC, mandriva may be better for you though.

"I'm 51 Years Old and started on Computers Before Windows Was Made, It Was only Dos, Then Windows 3.0, upgraded To Windows 3.11, Then To 95 Which I skipped And Went To WinNT, Then Win2000, Then WinXP" I always know when somebody is making things up.. So sir.. it went from Dos stright to Win 3.0 did it??? I think not.. I still have a copy of 2.1 laying around here and it came out 3 years before 3.0.. It's funny cos some of the stuff on 2.1 you can still find on Windows 7!! Notepad, Paint, Clipboard etc.. are all on 2.1.. that's how long MS have dragged this out for.. NTFS anybody? care to use a 100 year old filesystem anyone on todays hardware?? think i'll pass... Anyway.. my reason for posting was simply to point out that I know when somebody is making things up.

faites comme moi les gars j'utilise encore windows 3.1 et je suis satisfait, hihi !

Notepad is also on Ubuntu. It is in fact the most useful program ever written.

mandriva is better but also ubunta was great

Guys, there is an OS better than Mandriva and Ubuntu, together, The codename is Snow Leopard ;).

Snow Leopard - what the hell is that... If only the SUN was left shining the snow would have melted and apples dehydrated. I just cannot forget that cool panel which I first saw in SUN CDE from where all the fancy apple pies originated ...

Im 110 years old and remember the first transistor ever made and that is enough to know what is the best today :) (Yes, sarcasm.. im gonna give both a try now and see whats the best for my pc).

I'm grudingly on Mandriva's side here. I am responsible by deault for running a linux network but I'm not a sysadmin (meaning I have lots of other things to do), The MCC with Mandriva makes it much easier to manage than other distros meaning I have more time to do my real job. It's the devil I know but it's pretty darn good for our requirements.

I tried Fedora Mandriva and ubuntu, what I found that the Ubuntu need far less network trafic to keep it up todate, it is far more stable than others, Mandriva costed me a lot of money to update and I will remove it

Been using Mandrake/Mandriva since it was the McMillan release,based on Red Hat 5. Mandriva does cost money to update unless you update with the free version. This used to break symlinks and lose shell preferences, but the installer is seamless now. I like Mandriva because it's easy to keep up, it's stable, and there's a ton of cutting edge software (Including alpha releases) included with the PowerPack. I've tried Slackware, Debian, SuSE, and Ubuntu, but I keep going back to Mandriva. I use it on my video server (Matroska, finally!)and dual boot my main desktop. I also have a Dell i8600 workhorse with Mandriva 2009 running a 3d desktop with no glitches in KDE. Mandriva rocks.

I personally prefer Mandriva. I've tried Ubuntu 10.04. It is getting better. May be for an absolute beginner, both appeals equal. But for an average user, mandriva has more to offer. Also Mandriva (especially the One Edition) plays multimedia better than ubuntu. You got to spent hours downloading proprietary codecs & other library files to get the same functionality with Ubuntu (otherwise you got to try ubuntu based - Mint, Ultimate Edition, SuperOS etc.). Also Mandriva control center & drak wizards are matchless. Recently ubuntu has also received a mockery of Mandriva control center named UCC, which is far less functional. Also for Ububtu comes with gnome only (otherwise need to download Kubuntu & so on or need to install from web thru repositories). Mandriva (Free Edition DVD) has gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE everything included.

I have both ubuntu ultimate 2.6 and mandriva,but i have found mandriva is much better than ubuntu.Many programs in ubuntu don't startup.They just come up and boom they go down.As a result i have compile the program from source code, and this really boils my blood.Mandriva never gave me this problem.In the next few hours,ubuntu will be out of my hard disk.

mandriva 2010 vs ubuntu 10.04,,, tell me the result

i had tried installing ubuntu 10.04 (desktop and netbook version), open suse 11.3 and mandriva free 2010.1 on the same computer (atom n 330, intel gma 945G, 2 GB memory, 320 GB HDD, wireless KB/M). all were isntalled prefectly but ubuntu and open suse hanged when i run a program. only mandriva runs without a problem so far.

I liked Mandriva more than Ubuntu for its support to vaious filestypes (Multimedia/Photo/few encrypted acrobat etc) without hasles. Ubuntu beats Mandriva in support and available tweaks. Hard to decide.

...opinions are like areseholes...everybody has one. The TRUTH is...none of you opinionated pricks and 1 c&*t are correct. Get over yourselves. All OS's are made PERFECTLY FOR THOSE THAT USE THEM! Hense the phrase "personal preference". Blade said what up!

Ladies and Gentlemen: Please may we have a little more common decency and less religious flaming? I personally run Win7 for those things for which it is needed, various distros for various features which one does better than another and though I use Ubuntu predominately, I began using Mandriva at version 4 and Red Hat at version 3. I have worn out, killed and otherwise annihilated many computers over the years. I began programming in 1974 on a Burroughs 3600 with 512 kilobytes and things got pretty hairy there for a while. I even had to learn COBOL----the Horror, the Horror!! Then Fortran, Pascal, Algol and other obscure languages. I have NEVER found just one OS, not multics, not Unix, not assembly language, which did everything perfectly. C was an absolute delight compared to the bondage and domination languages like Ada or its parent, Pascal. Spend enough time on the bare metal and the modern OS's look like mana from Heaven. Nothing is perfect, simply a work in progress. Relax, enjoy what you have and flames to dev null.

Mandriva 2010 is much stable and faster then Ubuntu 10.4. multitasking is excellent in Mandriva 2010 (64 bit) so if u have multi core processor then go for Mandriva 2010...

Even the Live CD of Mandriva is three times faster than Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 10.10 is stable out of the box on my HP laptop. Mandriva 2010 crashed all the time, what a POS OS. too bad because Mandriva is a lot nicer to play with than Ubuntu so I run Linux Mint 10 now.

I have been running Ubuntu for a few years now and I am quite comfortable with it. It has a huge amount packages / repositories that you can call on and is very stable. I can take it off and and put it back on with ease. I decided last week to try Mandriva 2010.2 Gnome. It looks great and operates great. The only 'faults' (if I can call them that) is that it was very limited on software packages thus you are having to download and install yourself which for beginners is a 'nightmare'. Next I felt having 'Movie Player' as a default player a waste of time. It does not come with the codecs and does not work even with the codecs I downloaded. Again for beginners a 'nightmare'. VLC comes with Ubuntu and it is easy to install and comes with everything necessary to play DVD's. If you use wireless you will need to download your own driver. I have found they are usually self executing so for beginners it is a breeze. For ease of use Unbuntu has my vote. it does not look as pretty but what the heck....

someone mentioned mac os up there, i work with computers at least 10 hours a day and here's my opinion on macs: there has never been anything worse or useless than mac os x. adobe tools? they run much better on windows plus cheaper. as for ubuntu vs mandriva, since the launch of first ubuntu distro i tried mandriva 3 times, each time was so impressed by things working out the of the box and pleasant sleek interface, but eventually and consistently so i always put my lovly ubuntu back. btw, it is fully customizable and requires very little typing to learn in order to make it work perfectly for you. ubuntu is going to replace windows soon, including the only reason windows is still afloat: pc gaiminggggg...... :)

Ok TechnoChronic why give a man grief because he is excited about Mandriva?! Bye the way, big deal in editing autoexe.bat and confguig.sys. My 11 year old can do that. I did it all the time and I am not certified in anything. Te be certified in anything Microsoft isn't something to brag about. I've seen certified engineers that couldn't even figure why the monitor wouldn't work. You shouldn't have to be a command line geek to work a computer. I have been using Linux for 7 years now. I hate ms. I am using an ms machine for my business temporarily but will be back with Linux--Mandriva. I have been using Ubuntu but they can't seem to help me find a simple fix for my problem. Comodore 64 was a joke, Tandy was a waste and eve the old Apple was a pain to program. Ms just can't get it together. Windows 7 is a disaster. I used that briefly and went back to Vista. Next time you pat yourself on the back don't lose your arm. You are definitely disrespectful. Just for you info Mandriva is still a well loved distro and is not dead. You need to find a hobby and a real day job.

We have only one enemy, and that is ego.

You're right. We need to let someone be happy with what they have and be done with it. It's not just about intellect, it's about convenience, usability and stability. You don't have to be a computer tech to use a system. Just be yourself and find the one you like, and by all mean express your excitement about it and ignore the bohemians that want to steal your fun. Have fun with whatever Linux you have and have pride in it.

@TechnoChronic Awesome answer and awesome point. Ubuntu forks: Mint and Crunchbang rocks! Ubuntu itself is kinda too bloated for me, but I'm professional, 1600 years old and I started with computers in ancient era, loooong time ago, when Earth has 3 moons. I was the one who discover respawn glitch for Jesus and I gave RCON password for God and I'm telling you: Ubuntu and its forks rocks as well as Debian

@Peaceandgoodwill ,, VERY VERY WELL SAID!! EGO IS OUR BEST ENEMY!! I LOVE EGO!! LOL LOL LOL. Try nothing just get puppyLinux it rocks your world!!

@Al - If you were a computer person, you wouldn't do what most idiots do, and type With Each Word Capitalized. It makes you look stupid. The same with typing IN ALL CAPS. It reads like you're shouting.. At any rate.. When someone goes on a tirade and leaves a post that is so utterly one-sided, it's easy to just bypass it. A well thought-out reason would have good and bad points about one and/or the other. Ubuntu is great for some things, and Mandriva is great for some things. That is the underlying beauty of Linux: personal choice. I've used countles distros from distrowatch.com just to see what they were like. I've tinkered around in ReactOS, which I hope goes into beta sometime relatively soon. I've given Haiku a go, and that seems to have promise. The point is, your opinion and choice is yours. Free, as in beer; free, as in choice.

Whats up with all the arguement? Linux is Linux. Deciding what distro is the best in the Linux world is like is like saying gravity doesn't exist. It is somewhat idiotic, not to be rude, to be bringing up such a topic. It attracts childish and immature computer users. An arguement like this can never end. If you think Ubuntu is better than Mandriva, or vise versa, that is just your preference. Just remember, Windows breaks and Apples rot. Linux always does exactly what you want it to do.

Amen to that

Ok peeps - listen up! FreeBSD - Best TCP stack, best server arch. (Ask Yahoo) Linux - All distros messy, old fashioned threading, all GUIs lack coherence. Windows 7/2008 - Modern threading model (BSD is going this way). Coherent GUI. For servers I run FreeBSD, for desktop I run Ultimate builds of Windows 7. I gave up on Linux when I realised Linus was more about marketing than substance.

yo empece a entrar al mundo de linux con ubuntu y estaba impresionado por que tiene cosas diferentes a windows algo que estaba acostumbrado y me dijo un amigo te recomiendo Mandriva Power Pack me gusto por su ambiente grafico su estabilidad las herramientas que trae ofrecen mucha seguridad e incluso la navegacion en internet es mas rapida en si tiene cosas similares a cualquier sistema operativo luego probe con linux mint y me encanto por su dinanismo y para mi linux mint y mandriva power pack los recomiendo para principiantes tambien probe con Open Suse y se me hizo buena distribucion nadamas que esta un poquito mas dificil en conclusion me quedo con Mandriva Power Pack por su estabilidad y seguridad

ultimate edition is the best

ultimate edition is the best

Every "IDEAS" should be respected!!!(Well that's the persons idea-what the hell can you do about it!!!) - FOR ME Choosing the best OS WIN/UNIX based depends on what an individual needs and most fit it. THAT'S IT.. :)

thank for softwar