Mandriva 2008 spring download

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Dell PowerEdge 8. My Profile Log Out. Join Discussion for: Mandriva Linux Spring. Add Your Comment. Mandriva has its own package manager called urpmi, or you could go with smart too. MX" then restart X. Just the output of 'lsusb' run as root should be enough. BTW, we use Totem by default in order to have automatic codec retrieval via Codeina working.

If you prefer another player or browser plugin, just urpmi it, and remove the Totem browser plugin package, and that should be all you need to do. I'm a bit sad now : I was really looking forward to this - I've been trying the The install was really slow, over an hour, and then on the first reboot I had to wait 20mins with nothing on the screen except "Please wait, adding media".

What media? I just formatted the linux partition, and the XP partition is tiny, I only keep a few programs and no data there. Not from the CD, I had ejected that, and not from any external drives. Finally my desktop came up but the volume control seemed to be registering a constant keypress on the volume down key, with a box that would therefore never close nor could I use the sound Lastly the repo system didn't work, I don't know if that's because they were swamped on the first day, but I couldn't download anything other than the base packages.

Windows wasn't automatically added to GRUB. Where is the one-hit wonder button 'shutdown' that I can press and walk away from the machine instead of waiting to log out first? There are other problems I know I will have if I do get it up and running, e. I will try again in a while, maybe even with the Gnome desktop after the glowing reports above, but as it happened I really wanted to get up and running to record The Sopranos last night and fortunately I managed to get Ubuntu 8.

But yes I do mostly use linux for watching TV so don't test things exhaustively. I really liked the optional data collection exercise - I'd be happy to do this for other distros if it helps.

I'm glad so many people have had a positive experience. Mandrake got me hooked on linux, and I think the distro really deserves the popularity and support - the team are doing a fantastic job. So I'll keep my eye out for another chance to try Mandriva It's the freetype lib included in mandriva that doesn't include that option because of the legality of those patches in the US.

Gnome does sub-pixel hinting through cairo or libxft, can't remember. I'm sure it's the same around the time an Ubuntu release comes out. Several people seem to have that volume issue, but it never showed up during beta testing unfortunately. I think you should be able to remove the kdeutils-kmilo package to fix it. Honestly, if you mainly use the system for watching TV, I'd stick with whatever distro you're most familiar with.

The difference between distros for that kind of single-purpose use is not really too important If you're seeing the bug, please add a comment specifying what keyboard, or laptop model, you have. Thanks Adam. I am truly so impressed with your hard work on these and the Mandriva forums. Mandriva have a good policy of recruiting early seeders.

That would be the easy thing to do. I could even use Windows. It's not single-purpose just "most important purpose", of course - I still want to browse the web, email, manage media, edit photos I did have a purpose-built Arch setup but it wasn't nearly as much fun. I really want Mandriva to work, I think it is a beautiful, well-planned distro made by nice people - I'm happy to solve a few problems along the way.

Can I just ask about the shutdown dialog? Is that the way it's supposed to work or am I typically missing something? I guess my install is hosed. Whenever I try to log out, the screen goes black and freezes Oh well I may play with it a little more until the Fedora 9 preview is released.

So it's all different for me. I seem to recall that can lead to missing log out functionality sometimes. Yep, a ATI X I'm familiar with this issue when trying to suspend, but just logging out of the system!?

I'll wait until I reinstalled just in case the first install bombed. This time i enabled the PLF repos and removed totem, and installed my normal addons, plugins and codecs. I then applied all the upgrades. Now it seems I can play all the quicktime trailers and AVI's with sound. Also suspend seems to work without an issue so far. If you still have the logout problem, it's a bug in the proprietary ATI drivers that can cause X to hang if you log out of the running desktop without restarting X.

Yeah, I love proprietary drivers. I got the image this morning and will have it installed when I get home. Can't wait. I will say honestly that Mandriva has improved from being the head of the usability list at A truly great achievment.

I think I will load World of Warcraft on it and see how it plays. Also, it seems to do a better job at resuming my wireless connection after a suspend then either openSUSE or Fedora 8. I have to see if I can use it on my Fedora box. I'm not sure it would, as I don't believe we and Fedora use the same setup for network configuration.

But it can't hurt to try, I guess :. My zoom button currently opens a new Konqueror window, so it does something, I should be able to get it to do what I want. Great, thanks: I'll add it to ldetect-lst and future Mandriva releases will set it up out of the box. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics mandriva , , spring , linux , distro , alpha , beta , iso Language English. As such, this has a much smoother experience than the previous alpha build.

On the desktop side, not much has changed, aside from the kernel jumping to version 2. Have fun! There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review.