Mandriva (Linux): we're almost gone, but not today

[Dan]

Worth the cost of burning the CD?

[ah7013]

Originally Posted by Dan

Worth the cost of burning the CD?

The Live CD's, the DVD installer images and the boot.iso/all.img net installs can all be written to a USB flash drive with dd and you can just boot of that if you wouldn't want to waste a CD.

It's also a question of whether you would get the RC now or wait until the 22nd this month when the final release of version 2 comes out.

[Dan]

Agreed about dd. (Although, I have yet to successfully do that with a bare application of dd. Normally I use various tools that are based on it.)

[ah7013]

Originally Posted by Dan

Agreed about dd. (Although, I have yet to successfully do that with a bare application of dd. Normally I use various tools that are based on it.)

Yeah I would usually use Mandriva seed or something else to write the image to usb. Especially after the time I accidently wrote an image to my data hard drive instead of the usb drive with dd.

However what I usually do with both Mageia and Fedora is PXE install it from my server with tftpboot and NFS.

[Penguinclaw]

Originally Posted by ElderSnake

......My only issues were some really bad sound bugs (caused the sound to break entirely) after a week of use but it was a commonish sort of bug and it was their first release. I have really high hopes for Mageia 2.

Totally agree! Mageia really didn't want to play ball with my MAudio soundcard. Actually almost all distros won't configure it properly during installation; offering digital output only. I usually have to disable and totally remove pulseaudio. But thankfully Fedora is sweet heaven and everything is configured properly "out of the box"

Thinking about it, I recently did a fresh re-install of XP and that took me a few days to get it to even recognize the drivers. It required an awful lot of smoke and magic and I still don't know exactly how I eventually got it working

[Wayne]

Mandriva has become a joke

http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-an...-become-a-joke

[jbuckley2004]

That's a shame. Mandrake was my first Linux distro too, shortly before it became Mandriva. It really was pretty good, even great, through 2005 when I moved to Fedora, and to this day I stick with KDE because Mandrake used it so seemlessly. Gnome never did feel natural to me.

You couldn't beat it's installation - disk partitioning in particular was transparent and almost idiot-proof. You can't say that about the utility used during Fedora's installation.

There's no need to badmouth urpmi, either. A facility called "EasyUrpmi" provided everything yum does and more, fairly trivally. And really, it still takes yum plus Autoplus or Easy-Life to get full functionality in yum based distros, so no ones really at a disadvantage in that race.