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Mandriva Linux 2006 Review Continued

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the under-the-magnifying-glass dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "The second part of the extensive Linux Tips for Free Mandriva Linux 2006 review has been published, going into details about the state of Linux hardware support and compatibility, hardware configuration and software with a whole section on digital photography. Part one was previously discussed on Slashdot."

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  1. Quality of Articles by Kawahee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not making a stab at the quality of the article here, but this seems to be like a little bit of self promotion. I mean, http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr? http://www.when.was.this.in.style.com? And the poster comes from the website.

    Please don't mod this up or down, I'm just saying that I find there's something wrong with how this story got on /.

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    1. Re:Quality of Articles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Dude. This is slashdot. The articles people submit get posted as stories. Anyone can submit.

      What do you think the natural result is? Besides, how else will we know about it unless the author tells us about it??? Sheesh. Do you get angry when Jeremy White posts an article about codeweavers developments? Because if you do, you're being a tad unreasonable. Not all submissions come from uninformed 3rd parties that copy and paste from the original site.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Insightful

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  3. Ugh by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not Mandriva specific, since all of the distrobutions and packages are guilty to some degree, but this is a perfect example of what's wrong with the Linux desktop. Mandriva pops up a window when you connect a digital camera to give you the option of importing your photos. Great! But the title bar reads "Warning". No problem for us geeks, but now, think Grandma. What is she going to do when she gets a warning? Will she think that an error has occurred? Perhaps. That's why these dialog boxes need to have the polish and unified feel that they do on XP or OS X.

    1. Re:Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
      ... and the post by ookaze is a perfect example of linux advocates with their head in the sand. ookaze posts:



      > No problem for Grandma either, as she will see the big friendly warning icon, which :
      > - is not red
      > - does not contain a cross
      > - looks like ... a warning

      ... and uses that as justification for the dialog? The user plugged in a camera, why they heck should they get an icon that even remotely looks ominous? An exclamation point is not "friendly". Nitpick all you want, this is a warning dialog, warning the user that what they just did (plug in a camera) actually happened.


      At the least the icon needs to change to an info or question icon. After all,
      it is both informing you there are pictures to be imported, and asking you if you want to import them.


      But a warning dialog? This is definitely one of the things wrong with the linux desktop. Poor design.

  4. why? by bcrowell · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Mandrake was the first distro that I ever successfully installed. Woo hoo!

    But...

    Now that lots of Linux distros are fairly easy to install, what's the motivation to go with a commercial RPM-based distro?

    To me, the hard part about Linux now is not the install, it's stuff like getting sound and printing to work. Is that any easier on Mandriva than on Ubuntu, or vanilla Debian?

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