Mandriva 2008

Swansen · 28-02-2008, 05:12 AM

Well, i'll start with, i really liked Mandriva 2007, it was great, but it was a nightmare trying to get Firefox 2.0 installed, so that was kind of a killer for me, so i went from distro to distro trying to find something that was worthwhile, and i failed. So, here is a link to a review that will probably do a lot better job than i would of explaining anything
Mandriva Linux PowerPack 2008.0 review - Sofware in Review

But, i will say, that Mandriva should be the choice of anyone new to Linux, and i'm not even kidding. Just for giggles i tried every "so called" newbie Linux distro and they were pretty simple, but i wouldn't say they were easy. Granted, i'm decently comfortable with Linux now, but i don't think installation could have been any simpler, all you have to do was click next, literally. (minus the part where you have to select your language) That and it just works, but, it does have a lot of crap installed, or i should say, two weird things, mostly Firefox related. Lastly, and very contrary to the article, i like the desktop search, it works REALLY well compared to anything else i have tried to use, it said in the article about loosing stuff, but thats not really the case, its more like, wait, where would Linux put what i just did?? so i find it really nice.

Addis · 28-02-2008, 05:51 PM

What two things?

donkey42 · 28-02-2008, 07:48 PM

why so mush trouble installing FF, why didn't you just

Code:

urpmi firefox

, or install adept of symantic & install stuff graphically

Addis · 28-02-2008, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donkey42

why so mush trouble installing FF, why didn't you just

Code:

urpmi firefox

, or install adept of symantic & install stuff graphically

Probably because it wasn't v 2.0, though I'm not sure of that.

Swansen · 28-02-2008, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addis

What two things?

BlogRovR, and Kerry Beagle, which like some how integrates into Firefox, this box kept popping up until you ether register or check it to stop popping up. Yeah, like i said, they didn't have Firefox 2.0 in their repositories, even after it came out, it wasn't there, and i'm not even sure if they put in in the spring release, it was dumb.

donkey42 · 29-02-2008, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Addis

Probably because it wasn't v 2.0, though I'm not sure of that.

so, i should have suggested using a GUI package manager like Adept or Synaptic until you confident / comfortable konsole

cheers Addis

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swansen

they didn't have Firefox 2.0 in their repositories

why didn't you manually add the repos yourself ?

Swansen · 01-03-2008, 01:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by donkey42

so, i should have suggested using a GUI package manager like Adept or Synaptic until you confident / comfortable konsole

cheers Addiswhy didn't you manually add the repos yourself ?

No, there wasn't a repository availible to download Firefox 2.0, and there were no rpms anywhere. That, and for whatever reason Mandriva used a nonstandard file layout so if you download firefox from Mozilla website, it didn't work, so like it said, no remotely simple way of getting 2.0 at the time. On a side note, i did find out they added support when they re-released 2007, (Mandriva 2007 spring)

donkey42 · 01-03-2008, 02:53 PM

well i found plenty of rpm's, look:

& even FF3:

maybe you should try again ?

Swansen · 06-03-2008, 03:26 AM

LOL, donkey, your obviously not reading what i'm writing, I SAID THEY ADDED SUPPORT WHEN THEN RE-RELEASED 2007!!! lol, yeah, i was just way to impatient to wait, and like i've said for like the third time now, it was REALLY hard to get firefox 2.0 before the spring release for 2007, it was messed up, but it was Mandriva's fault.

donkey42 · 06-03-2008, 02:38 PM

well, i'll just shut up then

Off Topic:

for a change

BTW: not experienced shutting up before

Anti-Trend · 06-03-2008, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Swansen

LOL, donkey, your obviously not reading what i'm writing, I SAID THEY ADDED SUPPORT WHEN THEN RE-RELEASED 2007!!! lol, yeah, i was just way to impatient to wait, and like i've said for like the third time now, it was REALLY hard to get firefox 2.0 before the spring release for 2007, it was messed up, but it was Mandriva's fault.

Why not just download it from Mozilla and untar it? That's what I did for my friend's Mandrake (yes, pre-Mandriva) box that was up & running for 5 years solid with the same installation. Since it no longer enjoyed official updates, I just updated the internet-facing apps for them manually via SSH.

Swansen · 07-03-2008, 02:01 AM

Hey Donkey, sorry if my message came of as harsh, i wasn't being serious, sarcasm and the sort is hard to convey over text.
Yeah, Mandriva was my first Linux OS ever, so that was a little past what i had figured out at that point.

donkey42 · 07-03-2008, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swansen

Hey Donkey, sorry if my message came of as harsh, i wasn't being serious, sarcasm and the sort is hard to convey over text.
Yeah, Mandriva was my first Linux OS ever, so that was a little past what i had figured out at that point.

no problem, i'm hardly ever serious, as you know

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