On Sunday 17 April 2005 00:52, Tom wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:05, Philippe Landau wrote:
> >>Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> >>>>I had heard that LE might be noticbly faster than 10.1
> >>>> (beyond the 10% speed improvement in KDE). Can anyone
> >>>> confirm/refute through experience? TIA
> >>>
> >>>Absolutely. Everything feels more snappy. But mine is a fresh
> >>>install, wiping the entire hard disc of a very messy system
> >>>from multiple upgrades (8.2 -> 10.1). Don't know if that
> >>>matters, though.
> >>
> >>it runs well here too.
> >>much faster then debian/gnome/ubuntu for example
> >>on this average 2003/4 hardware.
> >>
> >>>And - as usual - lots of good new stuff while breaking many
> >>>things that worked perfectly in previous versions. Back to
> >>> the CLI...
> >>
> >>if you are lucky enough to have your hardware supported out of
> >>the box and enable the sources from PLF/easyurpmi
> >>it is the most complete distro for home users i ever tried.
> >>
> >>>And that damned, drunken penguin....Ridiculous.
>
> Daffy Duck. I'm not sure what the joke is supposed to be,
> or what 'Limited' means, but IMO, both suck!
>
> >>i saw it as love-drunk, enamoured welcoming clown,
> >>bringing some empathy to the often lonely user.
> >>of course this can get on your nerves, so maybe
> >>there is an easy way to choose a replacement.
>
> You can for everything but your bootloader. Otherwise SOL
>
> > Well, all my hardware is supported, but I still use my 6 CD set
> > because I can't find Club Commercials (like RealPlayer, Adobe
> > Reader etc..) on the Club mirrors.
> >
> > My troubles - so far - is :
> >
> > 1. The USB subsystem doesn't work - still. I have to disable
> > this HAL thingy and mount everything manually.
>
> Hardware Application Layer doesn't do anything other than
> inform the kernel about hardware presence. It doesn't
> mount/umount anything. G-V-M (gnome-volume-manager) is the
> likely culprit. IMO, a step backwards from magicdev, but
> supposedly better for hotplug USB devices. None of which I'd own
> to begin with. You might run 'gnome-volume-properties' (as user
> an root) an see if the options suit you.
>
> > 2. The menu editor is defunct. Have to run "update-menus -v
> > -n" every time I add an application.
>
> Menus are now XDG. Supposedly WM apathethic. With 10.2 it
> most often worked that compliant packages were added, sometimes
> took a minute or so, sometimes a log out/in (KDE).
>
> > On the other hand, it's the first time in all my Mandrake years
> > that I have sound without editing lots of files. All in all a
> > great improvement from 10.1 (my worst Mandrake ever).
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Probly due to HAL, G-V-M, an D-bus
>
> But what do I know ;) Cooker is already man'dree'vah 2006,
> KDE 3.4 So far so good
> ~ $ cat /etc/mandriva-release
> Mandriva release 2006 (Cooker) for i586
>
> Y'all need to catch up ;)
Thanks, Tom. What package is G-V-M ???
Kaj Haulrich.
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