[CS-FSLUG] I came this close...

[David M]

On Thursday July 28 2005 2:11 am, Dommy E. Hamid wrote:

I just installed FC 4 last night, so far it's very nice!

> Nathan,
>
> Good job for staying in the "light side." I agree that Mandriva
> (sheesh.. still cannot get used to the new name for Mandrake) is one of
> the best all-in-one distro for beginners. While it looks a lot more
> kiddie than Suse or Fedora Core, it is very user-friendly.
>
> As David told you, you should go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to get
> additional repositories to improve your experience. Add at least
> contrib, plf-free, and plf-nonfree. This will add at least the codecs,
> libdvdcss (for region-lock), newer version of xine and mplayer, and
> other software you may like such as emulators and bible software such as
> gnomesword (although for the bible modules, you need to download it
> manually from the sword-project site).
>
> Unfortunately, since open-source moves on at a quite rapid pace, the
> software included in Mandriva is not as current as Suse or FC4. If you
> want newer version of software built for your Mandriva 2005 LE, you may
> want to add additional repository such as MandrakeClub.nl (
> http://mandrivaclub.nl/sources/official/2005/ ) or thac's (for newest
> KDE, it's found in http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ ). Personally, I haven't
> installed Thac's KDE yet, but I have installed tons of software from
> mcnl (includes the newest version of java run time) and so far it's all
> running smooth.
>
> As far as 2006 is concerned, the first beta has just been released a
> couple of days back. The schedule can be found here
>
> http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux2006
>
> Keep hanging in there :)
>
> Dommy
>
> Nathan T. wrote:
> > Hello everyone, I'm still here.
> >
> > For a time I was about this close (with my thumb an index half an inch
> > from touching) to going back to Windows if Debian didn't work, but as
> > soon as it was about 90% done downloading MSIE (which I used for
> > download because for some reason FF gets the wrong file size and goes
> > nuts) dropped the download and said my HD was full despite the 10 Gb
> > or so that were still free (Windows is nuts). I decided since I was
> > going to try at least one more distribution to download Mandrake then
> > because it's the one I started on, and now that I have a job I think I
> > could save up for a boxed MDK set.
> >
> > Anyway so far things have gone great, its eye candy isn't as good as
> > SUSE's, but it's quicker and more responsive than that which bears the
> > green lizard. The boot time is longer than Windows XP by a little bit,
> > but the UI and everything else after that is much faster. Mandrake
> > still puts together a very nice KDE desktop, I'm going to evaluate it
> > a little more before I decide to stick with it but so far things are
> > looking very positive.
> >
> > All I need now is to get support for Windows codecs and DVD playback,
> > I think I remember that having something to do with
> > http://plf.zarb.org but it's been so long that I can't remember if
> > that's even the right site to get the RPMs from, or which ones to get.
> > SUSE started acting up on me when I replaced Xine with a different
> > version from http://packman.links2linux.org and installed the codec
> > RPMs. If Mandrake survives the installation of the codecs and doesn't
> > show any nasty bugs then I'll be very happy with it.
> >
> > Does anyone know when MDK 2006 is due to come out?
> >
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