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Mandriva Linux 2006 Review Continued
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."
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.
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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
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
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This kind of a guide is extra sweet for folks like me, who Aren't hardcore Linux users/coders. (To Many 'advanced users' the occasional function string or what-have-you is expected, but having to open up your source code every time you make a change--e.g.: replacing your $10 keyboard with a new, slightly different $10 keyboard--is too much of a bloody hassle)
Makes it a touch easier to gauge whether it's Worth said bloody hassle for a particular desired result--setting up my spiffy home theatre thru Linux, or (no flame-age plz, I know the sacriledge I speak here) Winblows Media Edition.
This sort of guide, made readily available, can only assist linux penetration.
Oh, and the first two posts are exactly the sort of reason I can't stand slashdot more than occasionally anymore. Chock-Full-o-Trolls I'm thinking we all could use some sort of alternate forum...
A couple fans told me that my last journal entry was mint; give it a shot. Hope you like.
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.
Video Production Support
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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Missed the parenthetical statement, did you?
At least he isn't Roland Pipsqalli.
Before I knew any better, I used to run Mandrake. This article gave me the first moment in many months that reminded me of the existance of Mandrake. Was that just me or did we all collectively tune out from Mandr*? To rephrase, what has Netcraft confirmed? :)
And you are a conspiracy theorist. Check my post earlier: Free.fr is just an ISP offering free hosting, the Website creator just used the domain name to create a pseudo "vanity host". Nothing wrong. Quite funny, in fact, who would ever pay for Mandrake tips anyway? :)
Every .0 release of Mandrake/iva has been ridden with problems
URPMI an PLF and Coooker are the reaseons I keep coming back to Mandrake
but seriously 2006 is one of the worst releases they have put out since 8.0
It is Much slower than 2005(10.2), much less stable;
it lacks apache1, which I still prefer, the list goes on and on.
KDE 3.4 with its kat and kdewallet annoyances...
but again it's a .0 release, so It's almost expected.
Now, Mandriva is one distro with it's act together. No text-mode installer or arcane package manager syntax for Mandriva - it's the *easiest* distro you'll ever run. But that comes at a price, because it's also *hardest* for a developer to create an interface that's a smooth, seamless uh.. $EXPERIENCE than it is to just make the damn program work already and slap the command line interface on it with a shell script wrapper.
This review is excellent. This is exactly what Linux community needs to make the operating system friendly enough to be interesting to new users. These kind of articles combined with the efforts like the one few days ago, where there was a bunch of flash movies about using the OpenOffice, are invaluable resource for non-computer-savvy people to get to know Linux-based environment better and especially to find the rich set of applications it can provide.
If I wanted to build a Linux system that would have the same functionality as this, how much effort would go into that sort of thing?
For one computer, not as much as you'd think. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Getting it to work on the thousands of variations out there takes a little more effort.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Naturally, it took some time to get back in the top 20 for Mandriva Linux since the name change (and why would I be whoring for 'Mandrake' anyway - the name has gone the way of the dodo), but that too has happened without being on Slashdot.
What is this obsession with figuring out conspiracies anyway? The real conspiracy is that I want to show how cool Linux is, in this case with the example of Mandriva 2006.
Enjoy Linux,
Rob
www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr
For those who want to try this brand-new version, ISO images (CD,DVD, mini-CD and live-CD) of the 2006 have hit public FTP mirrors last week-end (note: the x86-64 version only comes as a 3-CD and mini-CD image). Tip: right after a fresh install, don't forget to apply all security and bugfixes updates if you want a secure and stable system.
Download mirrors are listed here.
All 2006 reviews have been summarized here.
Anybody know if online upgrading the rpms from an old version of Mandrake (say LE2005) to 2006 works? I mean, if I just use urpmi.addmedia to add 2006 repos to an installation of LE2005, install the base header rpm of 2006 by force and just update all the other roms to the 2006 ones via urpmi, will that work or will it be a wasteland of broken packages and unresolvable dependencies? What about using the "upgrade" option on the boot cd? I've googled for this and It seems to work for some people and not for others.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
you'll be up and running before you even get mandrake^H^H^H^Hriva iso's downloaded
Actualy, it will be faster to be up and running with Mandriva.
You can either download only one ISO image, or you can download the 12MB ISO for a network install, with fully GUI installer and all. I believe that debian netinstall ISO was around 85 MB.
This way, you can start installation after just downloading and burning an 12MB ISO.
And as for the software available for Mandriva, you have 12306 packages, plus the PLF packages.
So, right now, both Debian and Mandriva have more or less the same (very high) number of packages readily available with urpmi (CLI) / rpmdrake (GUI)
Peace
On a side note, with libdvdcss you can normally play dvds of all regions, no matter what the region on the dvdrom is set to.
Enjoy Linux,
Rob
just to add to the My repos are Bigger than your Repos argument i have a folder on my system that is a merge of 1 the powerpack dvd 2 a mirror of the i586 branch 3 a matched set of PLF rpms This folder is just North of 13 gigabytes (debian is 2 dvds??) and the Boot.iso trick is Grandma simple to use 0 make sure your connection is live 1 boot from the iso (after you burn it to a MiniCD) 2 hit enter to start the install 3 select network >http/ftp install 4 select mirror from list 5 begin normal install
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