Mandrake 9.2

[Schotty]

[Ralphie voice]

Burnt CDRoms taste like burning

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[demian]

The CD-ROM gets PHYSICALLY damaged just because you put in a Linux CD?!?! Yeah, right :

Come on. What kinda crap is that? Makes me wanna get an LG drive just to try it out ;D

[vvx]

I'll use almost any distribution, but for some reason I've no desire whatsoever to go back to Mandrake (I started on Mandrake 6.2)... I thought I was over being "too good" for a particular distribution but maybe not.

[Coral_Sea]

I upgraded to 9.2 from 9.1 and, overall, I'd have to say that it was a waste of time. SB Live digital soundcard doesn't work anymore (and yes, I unmuted everything) and can't get Flash to work with Netscape or Mozilla. Run command is missing from the KDE menu too. Will probably find more bugs as I start to use it more.

MDK 9.2 is indeed somewhat of a disappointment.

I'm personally more interested in what will happen now that novell has aquired SuSE and Ximian - that could make one kick ass combo.

[Coral_Sea]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=7;threadid=7918;start=0#msg74456 date=1069730462]
I'm personally more interested in what will happen now that novell has aquired SuSE and Ximian - that could make one kick ass combo.
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Yes, but you've probably seen the end of free (albeit via FTP install) versions of SuSE.

[Coral_Sea]

Well, I finally had to replace Mandy 9.2. Since I had already erased my 9.1 ISOs, I decided to install SuSE 9.0 via FTP. Not too painful with ADSL. For some strange reason, SuSE's implementation of XFree86 has always been a problem for my graphics card and monitor combination. Can't use xvidtune in SuSE to get the screen to match the dimensions and location for a Windows screen on my triple-boot box (although I could use xvidtune in all previous versions of Mandy to do that). I think it's related to how SuSE implements YaST for monitor and graphics card configurations. Anyway, it's not too bad.

Sound card works fine now as does Flash in a Web browser.

[cga]

[quote author=Coral Sea link=board=7;threadid=7918;start=0#msg74457 date=1069731183]
[quote author=Lovechild link=board=7;threadid=7918;start=0#msg74456 date=1069730462]
I'm personally more interested in what will happen now that novell has aquired SuSE and Ximian - that could make one kick ass combo.
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Yes, but you've probably seen the end of free (albeit via FTP install) versions of SuSE.
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I doubt that. I think Novell will not change things very much. You'll just a very hot rodded version of Ximian for SUSE and a "corporate" SUSE desktop offering in addition to the personal and pro versions.

I always buy SUSE boxed sets anyway, though.

[BurntAsh]

For the uninformed...

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/mandrakemove

looks pretty nice, looks nicer than the other live cds ive seen, ill have it in 2 hours to try it, might be my new choice of livecd.

[BurntAsh]

well mandrake move is pretty polished and nice looking, its awesome. sadly it wouldnt boot on my pc that has a radeon 9800, so i had to try it out on my roommates pc. also i wish they gave you mozilla 1.5, im not a fan of konqueror