anyone have/tried Mandriva 2005?

[Jim Conner]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 02:22 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Here's a link to the download version.  You can download 3 cds or 1 dvd.  Just 
click on the link to download the ftp version and choose a mirror.

http://www1.mandrivalinux.com/en/ftp.php3

As you can see I'm currently running it.  I had some stability issues till I 
added "noapic" to the append line in lilo.conf.  Every distro has it's pros 
and cons.  I've found that urpmi has taken care of rpm hell and there's a ton 
of packages for about anything and everything that you can ever need.  I'm 
sure that there will be something somebody will find that they will need to 
compile.

Jim
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