View the Most Wanted LQ Wiki articles.
LinuxQuestions.org > Linux Wiki > Which Mandriva ".iso" should I download?

From LQWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Various versions of Mandriva 2008.1 Spring are available.
This is a small comparison, to help you choose the one for you.


NOTE:
You will see a lot of question marks (?), suggesting that these information are not verified.
Also some languages that are include in the ".iso" images may not be listed here.

Contents

_________ Mandriva Linux Free 2008 Spring _________

Free version of Mandriva Linux (as in freedom of speech).
Non-free software, like certain hardware drivers,
or multimedia codecs are NOT included.


mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd1-i586.iso
mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd2-i586.iso
mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd3-i586.iso
All three CDs are needed.
You can partially install Mandriva with just "cd1".,
but the results are not guaranteed.
All available languages.(?)
Size: 700(?)MB + 700(?)MB + ???MB

mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-dvd-i586.iso
All available languages.(?)
DVD, size: 4.35GB

mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-dvd-x86_64.iso
The 64bit version.
If you don't know what this means, then you don't need this one.
All available languages.(?)
DVD, size: ???MB

mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-mini-dual.iso
CD(?), size: 700(?)MB



_________ Mandriva Linux One 2008 Spring _________

The famous Mandriva One. With many drivers available.
It is the one, new users prefer the most.


mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-asia-cdrom-i586.iso
With GNOME as the desktop suite.
Asian languages*
Size: 700(?)MB

mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-extra-i18n-cdrom-i586.iso
With GNOME as the desktop suite.
Extra languages*
Size: 700(?)MB

mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso
With GNOME as the desktop suite.
Standard languages*
Size: 700(?)MB

mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-asia-cdrom-i586.iso
With KDE as the desktop suite.
Asian languages*
Size: 700(?)MB

mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-extra-i18n-cdrom-i586.iso
With KDE as the desktop suite.
Extra languages*
Size: 700(?)MB

mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso
With KDE as the desktop suite.
Standard languages*
Size: 700(?)MB


      Asian languages (asia):
English (en)
Indonesian (id)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Malay (ms)
Chinese Simplified (zh_CN)
Chinese Traditional (zh_TW)

      Extra languages (i18n):
Bulgarian (bg)
Czech (cs)
English (en)
Greek (el)
Hebrew (he)
Hindi (hi)
Lithuanian (lt)
Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
Ukrainian (uk)
Uzbek (cyrillic) (uz)
Zulu (zu)

      Standard languages (int):
German (de)
English (en)
Spanish (es)
French (fr)
Italian (it)
Norwegian Bokmaal (nb)
Dutch (nl)
Polish (pl)
Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR)
Russian (ru)

Torrents

For torrent downloads, from http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/:

http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd1-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd2-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-cd3-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-dvd-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-dvd-x86_64.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-free-2008-spring-mini-dual.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-asia-cdrom-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-extra-i18n-cdrom-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-asia-cdrom-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-extra-i18n-cdrom-i586.torrent
http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/mandriva-linux-one-2008-spring-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.torrent


Personal tools