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March 13, 2004

Mandrake Part 2

Okay ... so I can't get ATI 3D working properly in Mandrake 10. Of course, I couldn't get it working on any of the 2.6.x kernels I had installed on my Fedora box either...

Posted by ed at 10:14 PM | Comments (0)

Making the move to Mandrake

Okay, so I decided today that I was tired of fucking around with the 2.6.x kernel and wanted a distribution that already had it available. I looked around and decided to give the Mandrake Community 10 a try.

Man, I'm not exactly missing Fedora at the moment.

Mandrake has definately got their version 10 version of Linux right. Easy to setup, easy to configure, and they've got a good 2.6.x kernel compiled into the system. This thing is WAY faster than any kernel that I tried from RedHat or compiled myself. It's something to see, that's for sure.

One thing that I'm definately digging about Mandrake at this point in time is the menu structure. It just makes sense. Everything isn't thrown around, leaving you to guess where things might be located. Instead, everything is under a simplified menu that has several options.

The only thing that I haven't figured out yet is if there is an APT repository for Mandrake or not. I've found a version of APT for Mandrake, but I haven't bothered downloading and installing it as of yet. I want to make sure that whatever I get will be compatable with the newest version that I'm running. I'm not too terribly worried about doing software updates as of yet, but down the line I know that I'll want an easy to install way of updating my system.

Anyhow, I'm pleased with the newest version of Mandrake. I'll keep you posted on the things that I discover along the way.

Posted by ed at 08:10 PM | Comments (0)