eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Mandrivas Linux Corporate Server 4

We liked the roles-based installation options that Mandrivas FIBRIC afforded us, but FIBRICs configuration options for the services we installed were rather thin.

Linux Corporate Server 4s tools for software management, basic hardware configuration, network settings, mount points, security, boot loader configuration and miscellaneous other tasks are collected in the Mandriva Control Center, which more or less rese

We were underwhelmed by the maturity of Mandrivas Xen implementation, but we found the distributions urpmi to be useful for installing Mandriva as a Xen virtual machine guest.

Part of Mandrivas Xen installation walkthrough involved switching from Mandrivas default lilo bootloader to the grub bootloader to which most other distributions already default.

Wed like to see Mandriva more tightly embrace Webmin, and integrate the software more tightly into its administration tool set.