I going to run Mandriva 2010 Free 64 Bit as my main OS and below I will detail my trials and tribulations and triumphs. Which version should I install? Well I have already made up my mind but to help out other folk here is a link to a page detailing the differences in various flavours of Mandy. So first decision made, 64 Bit Free, all I need to find an.iso that I can burn to disc.
The main Mandriva site shows me the way to this page, Ah ha there is a link to the Free version and I can download it via the BIT TORRENT protocol, oh goody I can pretend to be a pirate. Yes I know that the torrent link is a legal one hosted by a reputable company offering a 100% free download but most people are still under the impression that torrents equal pirates.
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It looks like the 32 Bit and 64 Bit versions come as a dvd 4.3 GB.iso which is not what I am after. There is just too much software included in those dvd's that I do not need and will never use. I'm after trying to install Mandy as light and slim as I can this time around.
Trying the Dual Arch CD link takes me to here. Looks like a dead end Noticing the highlighted 'torrent.mandriva.com' link I give it a go and what do you know I end up after a couple of clicks here, Seems a strange way to direct folk to a download but I got there in the end. You can see the Dual Arch Free torrent and it is just a simple click to have it downloading by way of KTorrent. I did all that last night and when I awoke this morning the download of 698 MB had finished. My slow connection meant I had to leave it running over night, for those of you with a fast connection it would not take every long to obtain this free OS. Now I am going to burn the.iso to disk with the K3b burning program. I'll also do a bit of tidying up of my drives and some essential backups and clean partitioning work and I'll be ready to try out this latest offering from Mandriva.
I really like Mandriva as an OS especially the KDE version probably because of the blue themed backgrounds as blue is my favourite colour. This will be my fourth version of Mandy and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be the best one yet. The previous versions I have tried have all needed some quite radical tweaking to run nicely. Each version easier to install than the last and by that I do not mean the initial install as Mandy's initial install sequence is one of the best I have come across. Getting a system up and running configured for my personal preferences is what I should have said. Here is a link to Distro Watch with a fairly decent basic article on the latest offering along with lots of information on othere GNU/Linux distros.
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You'll notice that there is no mention of a Dual Arch Free CD, guess it must have slipped under their radar. Good job we are on the ball here at PC Review I'll be back later.
Well I have certainly had a tempestuous love affair with Mandy but it is coming to an end. I was trying to run and install from the Dual-Arch cd's as I wanted to run a leaner os than the FREE or ONE versions so that may account for some of my glitches and niggles but certainly not all of them. So for anyone trying out the FREE or ONE versions of Mandriva I recon that a smoother ride will be had. I see that a newer version of Mandriva is coming shortly, that will be the 2010 Spring release but I will not be trying it out. Hopefully they will have ironed out all the little niggles that have plagued the last release. Despite my grumblings I really like the distro and have found it a very nice os to work with. For the person who is new to GNU/Linux it would make a very good starter os.
A lot of my problems but certainly not all of them have been caused by the KDE desktop I decided to use. There were so many changes made to KDE that it was almost impossible to keep up with them and each update meant that something needed to be tweaked and altered.
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I had the main media CD and it still would give the same error that he got. I just went and repartitioned and installed the lxde only and from there installed the kde base minimal from the package manger and it all works finally. Returned to mandriva from distro hopping and this was more of a headache than the initial 2010 free that I used before.
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That install was flawless. Didn’t find much searching on mandriva forums on this. Thank you for your review. It was totally honest and objective.
It’s unfortunate that the version you tested failed as miserably as it did, especially since it was a reflection on the quality of Mandriva Linux. I purchased the Powerpack version of 2010 Spring, and it installed like a charm without any hiccups at all.
I totally agree that the absence of a “back” button at almost every step of the installation and a failure to auto-install CUPS and the unique components for my HP printer are significant omissions; although neither were difficult to overcome, just annoying. Being a long-time user of Mandriva Linux, I really enjoy this version, and I think it’s the best yet.
The only regression I’ve noticed is that it seems to boot slower than the 2010.0 version by about 15 seconds on the same machine. Other than that, the installation was very easy and I’m very pleased with the features and ease of use in day-to-day use. Mandriva Linux has IMO gotten worst about certain aspects of it. In this latest version of it, they eliminated the option to copy the packages to the hard disk, now you have to do it manually which really makes no sense since has been there for so many versions.
About Totem, I don’t remember it ever being able to play movies without installing dvdcss and the like because of copyright legalities. The problem me as a long time Mandriva user is I have been using for long and dealing with its issues that I’m just used to it and finding something is yet another curse to bear.
I tried the PowerPack version 2k9 and I thought it was actually worst than the free version: even thought it came with drivers for certain hardware that you have to other wise find, download and configure, my hardware has issues with it. The question would be, if they were taken over by I think Canonical, how much worst would it get?
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