Hello All,
Having heard a lot about Mandriva 2007, I decided to
try it out on my laptop. It loaded well. Before actual
install, some device configurations were necessary to
be done like display driver, boot manager (changing
lilo to grub), and some minor settings. Installation
was smooth. It detected everything except my wireless
card but it gave a message with a url to download
certain firmware packages and they (*.fw) were
downloaded and saved to the /lib/firmware directory.
However wireless setup was a Pain..ITA. There was no
direct link to up/down the interface and its a long
route via 'configure your computer'. The kde wireless
manager is lousy compared to the one in Kubuntu. At
one time I had to use command line to control the
interface. However even though verything was setup in
the ifcfg-eth1 file, sometimes the sudo ifup eth1
command would not work properly. The software updater
cannot find any repo site. On the web too I found some
mirror sites but no description to manually add them
to the package manager. I have yet to try out
multimedia.
In short, Kubuntu is much easier to configure and
setup compared to Mandriva. "And the first prize goes
to ....Kubuntu". Yeeaay.
Regards,
Rony
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