Hello GNU/Linuxers, About Mandriva 2008.1 XFCE distro, it is just OK. Detection of graphics / sound / network is just fine and the graphical installer is really good. Installation also went very well.
Polished is the word that comes to my mind, if you ask me about its interface. Excellent, it is. Good hardware detection too; it detected my bluetooth dongle and gives all details about it in the hardware properties whereas I have not been able to do that in either my Zenwalk 5.0 nor my Dreamlinux 3.0 in the GUI mode. But sadly Mandriva also doesn't have any application S/W to act as interface for logging into the bluetooth mode. One strange thing is that it doesn't show the the titlebar (the top portion where the title and close/minimize buttons are shown) for any application, the effect being that it is not able to maximize/minimize or even close any application from the titlebar. Closing application is done from the File menu. And even cycling open applications is not available so that if you have two applications open, the second one has to be closed to access the first one. Mandriva drives me into a state of MADriva then. :) But I am still keeping it as an alternative distro for configuring my bluetooth dongle. And that polished look is cool. Maybe I've not gone much into changing window manager themes, but still that out-of-the-box polished interface is very impressive. Zaheer M K GNU/Linux user #351122 Registered at http://counter.li.org -- See Exclusive Video: 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards http://www.hollywoodlife.net/younghollywoodawards2008/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ilug-cochin.org/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20080512/028a053d/attachment.html
