Mandriva

[viking60]

Yeah In any case I wonder if there is anyone left to read it. Still it is interesting how they managed the finance bit

[viking60]

And we have an answer:
http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl ... 0%2F487774

[dedanna1029]

Y'know what? The more I think about it, the more I think I'm going to try out 2011 on the netbook. There's a reason or two why.
For one thing, I think that a lot - and I mean a lot - are taking a "it should just work" attitude, when they are not taking into account what all the company has been going through (and that particular thread, I do feel like walking in and posting this on). What the company goes through, when things are that rough, of course, is going to affect the distro itself. I'm also seeing people like rolf, and others now who have installed it successfully. I wonder if it's either that 1) it's not working for people who have special setups (but in a way rolf has one too, with the drives he has), or 2) if they just plain don't know how to work around the "bugs" that are happening in the installation procedure. There are other questions (similar ones) that I want to get answered too, that I can't verbalize - much less in a forum setting.

I am not meaning to put a necessarily positive or negative spin on MDV here, or on the distro itself. I'm saying I want to find out.

Edit: I will say also, that those who have moved on to another distro and are not using Mandriva any more, who are still posting at their forum, why are they? My own assessment on that, is they are hoping that Mandriva will come back up soon, and are hanging around because when it does, they'll go for the next version that is released.
The thing is, again, they are not taking into account what Mandriva is going through, and has gone through. It's going to be a long, slow recovery whatever way they go about it, and that's if it happens.

Edit 2: http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic. ... 24#p856724

[dedanna1029]

I am not seeing a Free DVD version to download at their download page. Is this default now, to use One? Thanks.

http://www.mandriva.com/en/downloads/

[rolf]

I think there is only ONE. I've got a PowerPack DVD but have done ftp installs, moreso, lately. Maybe such would work for you?

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, possibly.

I remembered after my last post that I have a copy of the 2010 dvd, but can't get to it because it's on a drive on my desktop PC, which is down right now. So, went on a hunt for it and found it at ftp://ftp.free.fr/. I'm downloading it from there, and was thinking on installing it, then upgrading to 2011. Do you know of any recommendations against doing this?

Edit, sorry: I also have 2010.2 downloading via torrent, but it's awful slow. There's only one seeder.

Later: Found a 2010 Free dvd torrent. It's going much better. I'll install it, then upgrade.

[rolf]

I did an upgrade, the first installation of 2011 that I could use. However, there are various occasional things that don't work. Although I can't find exactly why, my sense is that 2011 is not fully sane, not on my machine, at least. I am anxious for a release of 2012 from ROSA or Mandriva.

That said, my "successful" upgrade is reported in steps, including a link to the beta upgrade script in the wiki that I used, in this earlier post.

[dedanna1029]

Okay, cool. Thanks, rolf. I'd seen the post, but as usual, with schoolwork and other things on the brain, nothing is fully clicking right now. Lots of work to do. Thanks again.

[dedanna1029]

Questions:

1) Will I need that wiki script, do you think?

2) I remember there being a Mandriva release for netbooks. Is that still around, and if it is, would that be more advisable to install to,,, guess what... a netbook?

3) Any other recommendations, beams of light, warnings, or anything at all else I should know about before I do the install? I know 2010 will run on my desktop PC like a champ. It already has, and so did cooker for it. I am just I guess (hopefully understandably) a bit leary of 2011, but don't want to be paranoid, either. I just want to install it long enough to get some questions of my own answered.

Thanks.

[rolf]

The script "worked for me". ymmv.

[dedanna1029]

OK, thanks. I think to start, what I'm going to do is use an old method I used before to upgrade, see how that goes. If that doesn't work, then I'll go for the script (this is one of the questions I have, is if that would still work).

[dedanna1029]

2) I remember there being a Mandriva release for netbooks. Is that still around, and if it is, would that be more advisable to install to,,, guess what... a netbook?

Found what I was trying to think of. It's Moblin, which MDV began including in the distribution at the 2010 release. Think I'll give it a go on this thing, along with others.