One CD install is a joke

[67GTA]

I guess Ubuntu has spoiled me. I have tried every suse release since 10.0. I want to, but I just can't get into it. I'm downloading Mandriva 2008 now.

[igknighted]

I guess Ubuntu has spoiled me. I have tried every suse release since 10.0. I want to, but I just can't get into it. I'm downloading Mandriva 2008 now.

I just installed it... very impressed so far. Recognized all hardware (including the widescreen that other distros *cough*gutsy*cough* don't), runs quick, looks great, and the config tools are excellent as always. I have found a few annoying bugs (aspell tried to use russian despite my english localization, repo's don't seem to all be up yet), but I'll give it a bit to work them out because this release seems top notch.

NOTE: I am using the KDE One CD.

[coffeecat]

including the widescreen that other distros *cough*gutsy*cough* don't

I should imagine that's down to the graphics card you're using. I had no problem with my 1680x1050 WS monitor + Nvidia Geforce 6200 card with Gutsy Beta. Well - once I had changed the resolution in System > Preferences that is. At least I didn't have to go rummaging around in xorg.conf with a text editor.

Anyway - downloading the Suse DVD atm. I gave up on Suse after the 10.1 update manager debacle and I'm looking forward to trying this one out.

[Erunno]

I'm downloading Mandriva 2008 now.

Same here. I'm really curious about Mandriva since I actually never used it before and it is lauded as one of the last great KDE distributions. Thank god I still have that partition with openSUE 10.3 GNOME on it

EDIT:

I almost aborted the download when my eyes spied "XFS no longer used" in the release notes. But they were talking about the X Font Server *phew*

[igknighted]

I should imagine that's down to the graphics card you're using. I had no problem with my 1680x1050 WS monitor + Nvidia Geforce 6200 card with Gutsy Beta. Well - once I had changed the resolution in System > Preferences that is. At least I didn't have to go rummaging around in xorg.conf with a text editor.

Anyway - downloading the Suse DVD atm. I gave up on Suse after the 10.1 update manager debacle and I'm looking forward to trying this one out.

Yeah, it worked after using the xorg config tool... but Mandriva did it automatically. I don't much care for that clumsy config tool in gutsy, I want a smooth one like in mandy or else forget it, let me just edit the file myself.

The problem is perhaps partially to do with the vid card (nvidia), but more to do with Gutsy doing a poor job querying the monitor for its capabilities. The vid card is more than capable, and the tools are out there for xorg to query the monitor properly for its ideal resolution and use it... distro's like Mandriva and Fedora get this, others (and Ubuntu is just one of many examples here) do not.