Despite the upgrade hicupps, I am overall happy with Mandriva 2008
because it offers *some* eye candy and some good improvement to
existing apps (?). Basically by allowing me to use newer versions of
daily use apps without much problem.
I am yet to try ia_ora or whatever, and 3 D effects... just
Thought of upgrading to Mandriva 2008 on laptop (Inspiron 1501) from
Mandriva 2007.0
things were quite fine till almost 80-90 % of upgrade was over..
Then suddenly a silent (not blank) screen and no harddisk activity for
almost 15 minutes.
So after failed Ctrl-Alt-Del, I pressed
Good to see this report.
Last evening I I tried moving to 2007.1 free edition from my 2007.0 pp
+ a few 2007.1 rpms installed on TP60p.
My story
1. The full-text screen does not stay for a long enough time to repond
2. You are taken to the GUI from where opting for text did not
yield any response
Well... I gave upgrading an another shot and it picked up from where
it left off and everything went smooth and except few setting changes
I am fully working on Mandriva 2008 now.
Installed new HSF modem and look like I am back in action..
So i feel there is a bit of improvement over 2007 in
