Mandriva Linux 2009 impresses

If only Adobe would release a linux version of CS3 or CS4, I would definitely switch... and don't tell me anything wine related, wine sucks, I want native compatibility.
 
nelwa said:
If only Adobe would release a linux version of CS3 or CS4, I would definitely switch... and don't tell me anything wine related, wine sucks, I want native compatibility.
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This is OT, but have you tried it in a VirtualBox?
 
Wine

Wine has improved a lot since then, but still not good for any software you spend hours working with (like photoshop).
 
tomatosarefruit said:
Now that's gotta be slooooow
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Have you tried it? I don't know how it will be with heavy number crunching like Photoshop but it runs XP like greased lightning for me under Mandriva. I am posting under XP under VB under Mandriva ;)

Far faster than Mandriva under Virtualbox under XP for me anyways!
 
Say I wanted to use Mandrivia. Why would I?

What makes it different from other distributions?

What advantages would I have using it over say.. Ubuntu? (which has more support)
 
w1z4rd said:
Say I wanted to use Mandrivia. Why would I?

What makes it different from other distributions?

What advantages would I have using it over say.. Ubuntu? (which has more support)
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Mandriva seems to be one step ahead of Ubuntu feature-wise. I was having a sound issue on my laptop - I went from Ubuntu to Ultimate to Suse to Fedora - each one failed to solve my problem even after troubleshooting. Of the distros that I tried, Mandriva is the only one that sorted out the sound issue:).

Also, I use an E220 to connect to the internet. In Ubuntu you need to get wvdial working to use the E220, before you can download the dependancies and Vodafone app. In Mandriva all you have to do is plug it in and boot, and the connection manager picks it up 100%.
 
w1z4rd said:
Say I wanted to use Mandrivia. Why would I?

What makes it different from other distributions?

What advantages would I have using it over say.. Ubuntu? (which has more support)
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Hell I'm no Linux-head, but every time I get the bug to run Linux I seem to end up with Mandriva. For me it is because it installs right, recognises the hardware, configures everything properly so I don't have to STUFF AROUND WITH xorg.conf! It sets itself up on my Linksys wireless adapter fine ( so does Ubuntu ) so I am not flailing around trying to get connectivity without having connectivity ( which is a PAIN! ). I also like the DVD version because there is a LOT on the DVD so you don't spend so much time downloading whatever you want.

I admit I am more of a Windows and Mac user, but that is why I like Mandriva - to me the biggest problem Linux has in being a popular desktop OS is that with many past versions, and current ones too, you want to install something and it just doesn't friggin work! So you have to wander around sites trying fixes, living in a console, trying to recompile **** that just doesn't, and having to use things like that godawful vi editor!

( When I first used Unix systems in the mid-80's ( sVr4 IIRC ) the first thing my team and I did was to write a proper bloody editor so we would not have to use vi! )

Clearly it is personal taste, but you did ask. OpenSuse 11 is quite beautiful, but too much effort to get basic stuff running. Fedora is very "security tight" and seems to forbid you installing various things. Ubuntu is nice, but somehow I always battle to find versions of obscure software I like that run on it - actually, you have to go find the stuff, because the easy-install package manager thingy of theirs lists so little. Kubuntu is also nice - I do like KDE, but much the same applies. Oh, sure, I can load other package managers, but that is precisely the friggin problem - the stuff should be THERE!

Anyway - sorry for my waffling on. Maybe it is a case of Mandriva - the idiot's Linux! ;)
 
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w1z4rd said:
Say I wanted to use Mandrivia. Why would I?

What makes it different from other distributions?

What advantages would I have using it over say.. Ubuntu? (which has more support)
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w1z4rd give it a whirl make sure when you download download 2009 ONE not 2009 Free
One has all drivers and codec support built in, where as free you still have to download the codecs and drivers, network support is really awesome and I just find it better than say Ubuntu.

the mandriva fan boy
 
Ive never had a problem with my Ubuntu installs... And the last time I had to touch xorg.conf was dapper drake. Ill give it a try, but Im expecting an RPM based system with less support than Ubuntu.

Airwolf, your comment on the E220 and Ubuntu is wrong. Ubuntu installs the drivers. Perhaps you just had a problem because you wanted to use a gui? You also dont need wvdial. Just the ppp daemon.. which should come default with any distro.

Okay, I will give it a try :P See how it works.
 
Give it a few days before you try download the servers are jammed so when you try install anything else or add repo getting time out errors :D bit the same as when Opensuse was released a while back the SA mirrors are busy syncing at the moment.
 
Ive run OpenSuse and SLED, pretty desktops, but not for me. Though my clients with Novell servers like em.
 
BigAl-sa said:
This is OT, but have you tried it in a VirtualBox?
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tomatosarefruit said:
Now that's gotta be slooooow
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Nope, you'd be surprised.

I used to use CS3 inside Virtualbox on ubuntu. I couldn't notice a difference between that and running a CS3 natively on XP (except that to run it you've got to boot windows, then start it - but once it's open...)
 
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