Mandriva One 2009
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From: chris on 12 Nov 2008 04:17 This month's Linux format comes with the latest version of Mandriva and I must say I'm extremely impressed! All the multimedia codecs, flash and nVidia were recognised and installed by default even on the Live version. So compiz, iplayer and multimedia downloads worked first time. Installation was a breeze, too. The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA Chris
From: anahata on 12 Nov 2008 08:58 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:17:37 +0000, chris wrote: > > The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly > slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the > time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for > my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any > ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran > smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA Bad choice of distribution or mirror site? Site overloaded because it's a new release? -- Anahata anahata(a)treewind.co.uk ==//== 01638 720444 http://www.treewind.co.uk ==//== http://www.myspace.com/maryanahata
From: Chris Whelan on 12 Nov 2008 09:11 On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:17:37 +0000, chris wrote: > This month's Linux format comes with the latest version of Mandriva and > I must say I'm extremely impressed! > > All the multimedia codecs, flash and nVidia were recognised and > installed by default even on the Live version. So compiz, iplayer and > multimedia downloads worked first time. Installation was a breeze, too. > > The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly > slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the > time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for > my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any > ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran > smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA > > Chris Nope, just installed it and getting between 100 & 650 from the package manager. It's very impressive on a quick look. I will be sticking with Mepis however; I just can't get on with KDE 4.x. Mepis 8 should be final by the end of the year, and that will still use KDE 3.5 Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: chris on 12 Nov 2008 09:32 Chris Whelan wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:17:37 +0000, chris wrote: > >> This month's Linux format comes with the latest version of Mandriva and >> I must say I'm extremely impressed! >> >> The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly >> slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the >> time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for >> my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any >> ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran >> smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA >> >> Chris > > Nope, just installed it and getting between 100 & 650 from the package > manager. OK. I will have to investigate. Thanks for checking :) > It's very impressive on a quick look. I will be sticking with Mepis > however; I just can't get on with KDE 4.x. In general, I like the look of it. However, dolphin seems like a step backwards and I'm still waiting for Amarok and digiKam to release native KDE 4.x versions - they are currently in beta AFAICT. KDE 3.5.10 is available in the repos, allegedly... > Mepis 8 should be final by the end of the year, and that will still use > KDE 3.5 OK. I am still partial to sticking with Mepis as I've been using it for the best part of five years now, but on trying out one of the betas I was very underwhelmed with what there was. At best it was a point release, not a full version change. I mean, where's the use of nVidia drivers and compiz out of the box, which was there in Mepis 6? Warren needs to let go of the reins before it goes completely under, IHMO.
From: chris on 12 Nov 2008 09:34
anahata wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:17:37 +0000, chris wrote: > >> The only downside I found was that the package manager was crushingly >> slow. Sometimes it showed a download speed of ~1kbps, but most of the >> time I just thought it had died. I'm considering it as a replacement for >> my Mepis install, but not until this is resolved. Does anyone have any >> ideas why it would be so slow? BTW web browsing and iplayer viewing ran >> smoothly, so it's not a connection issue. TIA > > Bad choice of distribution or mirror site? > Site overloaded because it's a new release? Those are both valid possibilities. Thanks. |