Well the novelty lasted less than 48 hours... with my laptop having onboard graphics the performance was reduced, and annoyed me!

Whilst I'm still really impressed, a few things are beginning to annoy me, anyone have any suggestions?

1) When I switch between desktops, the taskbar shows all the open applications. Any idea how I can make each desktop have its own task bar?

2) I like to stream my music from a Windows PC. Currently I can only do this using VLC Media player (which i downloaded), and playback is sometimes jerky. Also, I cannot play a playlist, just a single track at a time :S.

3) I tried to install a trial of VMWare, it was an RPM, but when I tried to run the command 'vmware' it said it had to compile something, and eventually asked for the location of my C Headers (or something like that). It couldn't find them and installation / configuration stopped!

4) To compile software from source, do I need the kernel source? If so, where can I get it? (Mandriva One Spring 2008).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Thomas