considering mandrake 10.....

[mmills]

I am currently downloading the iso files to burn off to cd, anyone having any trouble with any video cards cd burners and such? I am using suse 9.0 pro and the only problem I have is Im not happy with the gui, and yes I kbnow I can edit all that but I came from mandake 9.0 when it forst came out, I tried 9.2 loved it could not get my sony crx225e configured, so I couldnt mtn or burn......


looking for quick loopholes.

[Dark Ninja]

You mind me asking what you didn't like about your GUI? There's a ton to choose from -- KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, etc (commandline? :p ). But, seriously, if Suse is working for you, stick with it -- just get the packages/build yourself a new GUI.

Personally, I didn't like Mandrake too much, only due to the fact that it installs MUCH more than I wanted it to and the fact that I could not connect to the FTP servers so I could update my software. However, it did find all my hardware.

It's just a matter of personal taste. Give it a shot -- worst thing that could happen is you decide to go back to Suse.

[soda_popstar]

I've never had too many problems with Mandrake. After Gentoo, it's probably my favorite distro ... Fedora's probably tied with it though. ;) I'll probably wait until Texstar starts rolling out RPMs for the new 10.0 final release before I consider trying it though.

[mmills]

well ok I guess I didnt go into detail why I didnt like the gui, first, mandrake is the only linux distro that I have tried that my moitor was supported, there for my icons and what are large, better off using redhat 9.......anyways. so 9.2 was great but I couldnt not get my cdrw to write.

[DSwain]

your cd writer was probably more of a problem of k3b and scsi emulation support. the 2.6.x kernel fixes this by eliminating the need for scsi emulation and k3b works great now, so it should work fine with Mandrake 10 (hopefully, you never really know) As for me well i used MDK 10 RC1 for a while and it worked great for me. The only bad thing is that the kernel sources for Mandrake aren't there, and you apparently can't build them from source yourself, but you can get the rpm for it and install video drivers and things like that. Otherwise it works spectacularly (sig for my specs) everything worked.

[mmills]

nice to know, the only problem I have with suse 9.0 is ofcourse my monitor, currently I am using windows 2000 pro becuse of the moitor problem with suse, I love linux, my wife hates it but not all things in life are fair.. ha ha.

Its far from what I am doing in school currently I am taking my MSCP course, buit at home I like to stay away from the lovely virus's and licensing issues...

[mmills]

anyone have any input on the mandrake security iso download its like 650mb, Im just assum due to file size that it is not a firewall and if it is its packin..ha ha.

[DSwain]

well after looking around Mandrake, apparently its a packing firewall. I assume its an easy to use firewall tool, apparently also configurable (remotely?) over the web. It may mean in a browser, who knows. Bare in mind its big because i'm sure it gives you X, all the Mandrake tools, firewall/security things and so on.

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by DSwain
The only bad thing is that the kernel sources for Mandrake aren't there, and you apparently can't build them from source yourself, but you can get the rpm for it and install video drivers and things like that. Otherwise it works spectacularly (sig for my specs) everything worked.
The kernel sources are on the Mandrake 10 Community cd's :D and MDK 10 worked much better for me than MDK 9.2.

Just a hint, don't install the "LSB" stuff or you will get the 2.4.25 kernel installed instead of the 2.6.3.

Later,
MMYoung

[Jaywalker]

I installed Mandrake 9.0 then upgraded to 9.1 by "clean installing" it. In neither version did it recognize my on-board Dell sound card. Huge tweaks got it working the first time (50+ posts on JustLinux), but the second time, it was just too much trouble. In researching the issue, it seemed to be common with Dell machines.

I didn't (and don't) care for their default partitions, so I set my own up so I could upgrade more easily during that part of the install. The rest was a default install, however. It worked fine.

Jaywalker