anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/14/2005 09:43 AM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> 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.

Hrmmm, i guess i'd have to buy that.  grrr.

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