Very nice! First class hardware detection. Fairly quick to boot.

I installed it on my compaq presarion v4000 notebook, and although the install time was lengthy (about 45 mins), everything worked out of the box, and every plugins i need were easily installed via rpmdrake. I however needed to update, rebuild the db a few times to install packages :( a part from that, this is an excelent platform.

Excellent all round. Caters for beginners and advanced Linux users.

KDE is very stable compared to previous versions of KDE...a very nice option for the windows users who want an alternative.

excellent product, big improvement from 2009, I installed on my Samsung laptop no problems with the install, propably the best Linux os I have used.

I currently have windows 7 and mandriva 2010.0 and 2010.1 installed on my HP laptop. I have tried other linux distributions (ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, suse, and fedora) and they all worked but I like mandriva the best.

I'm a long time Mandy user. I'm now running 64 bit version on a gigabyte system, dual core, and a gig of ram, Nvidia audio and video.

KDE-4 is now stable. I also installed XFCE.

I have been using Mandriva, since Mandrake 9.0 This version is easily the fastest, from boot time to shutdown. I also run several servers.

Only problem I have is boredom, there isn't anything to fix, it just works.

I would rate it a ten for all the bits I should have if only I could get it all together. :cry:I downloaded and installed Mandrivas 2010 free distro then bought the powerpack iso and after burning to disk in XP, because getting burning packages in the free version is a tad complicated, I tried to install the powerpack from the bootable DVD. After some time of watching the installation failing I decided to try the One distro and this then gave me the option to upgrade to powerpack. I inserted the DVD but could not get it mounted. I rebooted with the DVD to boot from but that failed yet again, Same messages I/O error device sr0 exit abnormally. so I tried using Brasero, yup this comes up easily in the One distro but the iso again thinking this was a windows vesus linux thing but no go. I have tried to update to powerpack using the desktop links but that is only going to download the same iso another 3 hours plus.

So would someone please explain what I am doing wrong because I confess I am clear out of ideas and my download link expires in about 9 days:scratch:

My Compaq Presario 1260 loads and runs the setup CD, *but* at some point the setup says that it can't find a driver for the CDROM drive which is a Toshiba XM-7002B. I'm left with a scroll box of *many* misc drivers from WiFi to SCSI to USB, etc, but nothing that looks useful for the CDROM.

THANK YOU