anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/13/2005 07:53 PM, Ian Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:50, Net Llama! wrote:
>> subject says it all.  anyone have/tried mandriva 2005?
> 
> Installed it on a P500 with 128 Mb ram.  Install seemed like same old
> Mandrake.  I haven't used it other than to click around the menus a bit,
> but KDE seems to have a snappiness to it that feels fast compared to my
> Celeron 533 with 192 Mb ram that's running Mandrake 10.0, or even
> compared to the AMD XP-M 2200+ laptop with 256 Mb ram that also runs Mdk
> 10.0.
> 
> One odd thing I found is that the first time a new user starts X it
> hangs early on.  Didn't seem to be the same place each time, but I only
> did it 3 times.  Ctrl-alt-backspace, then startx again and it goes fine
> ever after (so far).

You purchased it?  I can't seem to find a free download on mandrivel's 
website.

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