anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I think it comes on the latest Linux Format DVD.

     -- Alma