First encounter with Mandriva 2006
In the midst of a planned upgrade & moving some computer parts & harddisk around. I decided might as well try out the Mandriva 2006 on my spare Duron 1000MHz cpu computer.
Few things I noticed.
Pros:
1. Download of the installation CD from the local mirror averse net is very fast. 1.4G in 1.5hr.
2. averse net is listed as an official live update site. Live update is very fast, ~3 minutes for 100+Mb of update.
3. Installation & startup of Mandriva on my 1000MHz Duron cpu is even faster than Fedora on my AMD64 3000+ cpu. Think this is part of the kernel optimization effort by the Mandriva team.
4. Sun java 1.5.0-05 works for MayBank online banking.
Cons:
5. All the touted benefits of skype & realplayer integration into Mandriva are removed from the free download community version. It's only available from the paid member version. And I still don't know how to get realplayer working in Mandriva. More time needed.
6. Live update by rpmdrake is largely controlled by Mandriva. And as a profit generating company, Mandriva has all the reason in the world not to release things like RealPlayer & Skype to non-paying customer. As we know, live update by third parties like freshrpm are usually much faster & answers to many more user needs without the burden of 'profit'. If you know of any agent like apt-get or yum for Mandriva, do let me know. Again, not enough time to explore.
Few things I noticed.
Pros:
1. Download of the installation CD from the local mirror averse net is very fast. 1.4G in 1.5hr.
2. averse net is listed as an official live update site. Live update is very fast, ~3 minutes for 100+Mb of update.
3. Installation & startup of Mandriva on my 1000MHz Duron cpu is even faster than Fedora on my AMD64 3000+ cpu. Think this is part of the kernel optimization effort by the Mandriva team.
4. Sun java 1.5.0-05 works for MayBank online banking.
Cons:
5. All the touted benefits of skype & realplayer integration into Mandriva are removed from the free download community version. It's only available from the paid member version. And I still don't know how to get realplayer working in Mandriva. More time needed.
6. Live update by rpmdrake is largely controlled by Mandriva. And as a profit generating company, Mandriva has all the reason in the world not to release things like RealPlayer & Skype to non-paying customer. As we know, live update by third parties like freshrpm are usually much faster & answers to many more user needs without the burden of 'profit'. If you know of any agent like apt-get or yum for Mandriva, do let me know. Again, not enough time to explore.
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