Mandriva 2008.1 RC2 has been out a few days and the reviews are coming in. My biggest concern with Mandriva was the memory issue. There has been a great response from Mandriva regarding this issues and it has been throughly addressed. Mandriva is listening, and they have responded. Below is Adam, from the Mandriva forums explaining the “memory issue”.

“To clear up the memory issue:

Mandriva has several kernel ‘flavours’.

‘desktop’ supports any i686 or later CPU, and up to 4GB of memory.
‘desktop586′ supports any i586 or later CPU, and up to 1GB of memory.
‘laptop’ supports any i686 or later CPU, up to 4GB of memory, and has tuning for better power consumption on laptops.
’server’ supports any i686 or later CPU, and up to 64GB of memory. it has some tuning appropriate for server use.

A great first impression by delboy711 from over at the eee User Forums. From what he says it looks like the RC2 might be worth the install.

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