Mandriva Linux 2009 impresses

[nelwa]

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...)

Does flash CS3 work as well? If it does I might just give it a try...

 

[chiskop]

Does flash CS3 work as well? If it does I might just give it a try...

Look, I know so little flash.... Sure, the app. worked fine.

Mostly I was using Photoshop and Acrobat - and they were as good as native IMO.

 

[saffakanera]

Mandriva 09 local mirror available yet?

 

[web]

Mandriva 09 local mirror available yet?

busy syncing

 

[AirWolf]

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 See how it works.

I always had the issue of having to unplug-replug a few times before 3 ports were detected before you could connect.

 

[Asgar]

I'll rather stick to Ubuntu. Used Mandriva was not impressed

 

[Pooky]

How are people's feelings on openSUSE?

Do you use KDE or Gnome with openSUSE?

 

[Asgar]

Command prompt all the way!

 

[AirWolf]

Mandriva 2009 now available on Fosscds.

 

[wcoetzee]

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!

OS under VB under OS but why
just use xp and do everything WTF

 

[rwenzori]

OS under VB under OS but why
just use xp and do everything WTF

Because it's there.

 

[rwenzori]

Mandriva 2009 now available on Fosscds.

Downloading it now off a USA mirror. 25 hours to go! The Telkom mirror never seems to have the DVDs - go figure!

 

[AirWolf]

Downloading it now off a USA mirror. 25 hours to go! The Telkom mirror never seems to have the DVDs - go figure!

I use 3G/HSDPA which is very expensive for downloading distros. That's why I prefer Fosscds.

 

[rwenzori]

50 mb to go and the power cuts. Thanks Eskom or whoever. Download corrupt. Start again. Next time I'll try this Foss CD bunch. Bleh!

 

[wcoetzee]

50 mb to go and the power cuts. Thanks Eskom or whoever. Download corrupt. Start again. Next time I'll try this Foss CD bunch. Bleh!

dont you use a download manager? resume?

 

[rwenzori]

dont you use a download manager? resume?

I do. That is the problem. ReGet Deluxe with 8 segments open. It will ALWAYS corrupt on a power failure. Been there done that.

LOL! Only 29 hours to go! Up yours Eskom!

 

[Pooky]

Has anyone got Mandriva 2009 DVD yet?

 

[d0b33]

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.

Now that's gotta be slooooow

I run CS3 using Virtualbox and it's as good as native, bonus is that if Windows or Adobe crashes your linux desktop will keep running.

I switched to Linux after I realized that CS3 runs like a dream using Virtualbox, XP only takes 8-15 seconds to bootup, the only thing you can't do is game... yet.

 

[rwenzori]

Finally got it down yesterday and am installing on a virtual machine to take a looky!

 

[rwenzori]

Bleh! Tried the KDE version ( 4.something ) and it is a bit flaky - not obeying set icon sizes, funny ghost images suddenly appearing. Trying the Gnome one now. I'm getting to quite like Gnome.