Of course the Free edition of Mandriva doesn't include nvidia as it includes only FREE software. Now the PowerPack or Club edition included precompiled nvidia drivers. Now you have One CD that include precompiled nvidia/ati drivers.
- No choice of the locale at install time (ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8).
When choosing the country, by clikcing on "More language" UTF-8 is activated
- Installer won't let you leave a partition alone, they must all be assigned a mount point.
And so what ? assigning a mount point is not a problem
- GRUB won't install anywhere but the master boot record of the first drive.
1st, Mandriva is using LILO...
2nd in the sumarry screen you can choose the bootloader location
- No official kernel patched with the vastly superior suspend2.
But there's community kernel in contrib media ( kernel-multimedia ) with suspend2 support. you're are free to install it. It contains also others bleeding edges patches.
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Of course the Free edition of Mandriva doesn't include nvidia as it includes only FREE software.
Now the PowerPack or Club edition included precompiled nvidia drivers.
Now you have One CD that include precompiled nvidia/ati drivers.
- No choice of the locale at install time (ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8).
...
When choosing the country, by clikcing on "More language" UTF-8 is activated
- Installer won't let you leave a partition alone, they must all be assigned a mount point.
And so what ? assigning a mount point is not a problem
- GRUB won't install anywhere but the master boot record of the first drive.
1st, Mandriva is using LILO
2nd in the sumarry screen you can choose the bootloader location
- No official kernel patched with the vastly superior suspend2.
But there's community kernel in contrib media ( kernel-multimedia ) with suspend2 support. you're are free to install it. It contains also others bleeding edges patches.