I have the newest of Ubuntu, PCLinux, SuSe and Mandriva. (And of course knoppix, meppis etc). Out of all of them I've seen nothing as slick -for the end user- as Mandriva 2007
The big reason is because with the full powerpack or discovery versions (and I've played with both) the app set is solid. All of the basic features I look for are in at the beginning and require very little work for and end user Mandriva 2007 is the first linux I've seen that I could hand off to someone fairly iliterate as to a pc and feel comfortable that things would work out CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:00:16 To:"The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [hardware] [H] Mandriva 2007 So IYO, is this is a step up from Ubuntu, my current fav distro? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Reeves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:52 AM Subject: [hardware] [H] Mandriva 2007 > Genious. Sheer, plain genious. > > We're an early seeder, so I've had access to the final Distros for the > last > two days and we've been playing around with it. Let me tell you a few > things that are worth noting: > > * The install was done on two PCs, one a Core 2 Duo on a 965P board (the > Gigabyte). It recognized and correctly configured all devices, audio, > video > (a 7950GT) as well as set performance on SATA drives. It recognized a USB > Wireless NIC and was able to do WPA to our router (something I've had > significant difficulties with in Linux in the past). The second PC, an > AMD > 4400+ on the Asus A8N32-SLI correctly configured also, found all drivers > out > of the box and ran with no issues. > > * Xen support within it is fantastic. > > * New game based support under Transgamer allowed for fluid use of games > like World of Warcraft and Civilization IV, the only two games we tried. > It > was indistinguishable from Windows XP as to their performance (IMHO), > while > I'm sure benchmarks may say different, I was impressed. > > * The new KDE interface is fluid and intuitive - far more so then MS Vista > at this point, and the inbuilt features in the full version - like LinDVD > (bundled from Intervideo) offered great features like passing AC3/DTS and > decoding as well. > > I'm not saying that Mandriva 2007 is going to be my regular platform, but > this is as close to a solid-consumer friendly desktop format of Linux > ever. > Period. This is a major leap over Mandriva 2006, and I think a lot of > people will be seriously impressed with the feature set. > > The install is painless. The performance is excellent. Support for > hardware is, frankly, better then Vista 5600/5728 at this point. On > Monday, > Mandriva will release the torrents to the Club members and shortly after > that to the public. Let me say this: if you're a club member or if you > are > thinking about it, this is definitely a distro worth grabbing. > > CW > > (Here's hoping I see this post return to me, for some reason I still seem > to > be NO-ACK with the list since Sunday) > >
