Comments on: Mandriva 2007.1 Spring Review http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/ All About GNU/Linux and BSD - reviews, comparisons, articles Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Chuck http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-39179 Chuck Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:02:05 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-39179 This is the first version of Mandriva that I tried the 'update system" option instead of a clean install. Everything worked great on three different computers. The only issue was that 2007.1 changed the default sound driver to OSS and it was easy to switch back to ALSA. Samba and NFS settings all remained intact. Beryl seems alot faster than on 2007. To me, this is the best Mandrake release to date. This is the first version of Mandriva that I tried the ‘update system” option instead of a clean install. Everything worked great on three different computers. The only issue was that 2007.1 changed the default sound driver to OSS and it was easy to switch back to ALSA. Samba and NFS settings all remained intact. Beryl seems alot faster than on 2007. To me, this is the best Mandrake release to date.

]]> By: barteqx http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-39127 barteqx Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:32:32 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-39127 I'd rather stay with my 2007.0. 2007.1 didn't recognise all my hardware. I’d rather stay with my 2007.0. 2007.1 didn’t recognise all my hardware.

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38956 Adam Williamson Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:56:08 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38956 "Many users complain that not everything works as it should and the free version runs slower than the commercial one." I'm a bit confused by this. There's absolutely no technical reason this should be the case (the different editions are built from the exact same package tree, the one you find on the public mirrors, and differ only in terms of which packages are included), and I have heard no-one say anything like this on the official forums or on mandrivausers.org. The only reason this could possibly happen would be for people whose graphics cards require the proprietary drivers, I guess. But there's nothing about Free that could make it _generally_ slower than Powerpack. Note that the proprietary graphics drivers are available to everyone from the public non-free repository, which you can set up by <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tasks/Installing_and_removing_software#Making_more_applications_available" rel="nofollow">following the instructions at Wiki</a> mpc, it would help if you would actually describe any real problem you are having with urpmi, as opposed to saying 'it sucks' with absolutely no justification. “Many users complain that not everything works as it should and the free version runs slower than the commercial one.”

I’m a bit confused by this. There’s absolutely no technical reason this should be the case (the different editions are built from the exact same package tree, the one you find on the public mirrors, and differ only in terms of which packages are included), and I have heard no-one say anything like this on the official forums or on mandrivausers.org. The only reason this could possibly happen would be for people whose graphics cards require the proprietary drivers, I guess. But there’s nothing about Free that could make it _generally_ slower than Powerpack.

Note that the proprietary graphics drivers are available to everyone from the public non-free repository, which you can set up by following the instructions at Wiki

mpc, it would help if you would actually describe any real problem you are having with urpmi, as opposed to saying ‘it sucks’ with absolutely no justification.

]]> By: tracyanne http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38646 tracyanne Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:51:19 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38646 <blockquote>how is powermanagement working - suspend2ram, suspend2disk after mandriva instalation?</blockquote> Excellent, as far as I can tell. On my laptop I hit + and it suspends to Disk in 2 to 3 seconds. pressing the power switch returns my desktop and applications from disk in about 3 to 5 seconds.

how is powermanagement working - suspend2ram, suspend2disk after mandriva instalation?

Excellent, as far as I can tell. On my laptop I hit + and it suspends to Disk in 2 to 3 seconds.

pressing the power switch returns my desktop and applications from disk in about 3 to 5 seconds.

]]> By: mpc http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38205 mpc Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:52:56 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38205 All this is well and good, but if you CAN'T UPDATE the system without borking everything, it's NOT MUCH USE! URPMI is a poor excuse for package management IMHO! All this is well and good, but if you CAN’T UPDATE the system without borking everything, it’s NOT MUCH USE! URPMI is a poor excuse for package management IMHO!

]]> By: pj http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38188 pj Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:27:52 +0000 http://polishlinux.org/linux/mandriva/mandriva-20071-spring-review/#comment-38188 how is powermanagement working - suspend2ram, suspend2disk after mandriva instalation? how is powermanagement working - suspend2ram, suspend2disk after mandriva instalation?

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