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Ideas for Mandriva Strategy?

 

Get a new CEO, learn something about marketing, stick to a strategy and don't change it every two years.

 

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Currently, the best strategy for Mandriva is to stop business altogether. That way, the CEO couldn't mourn about financial losses. :P

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.eps should work, as it can be rescaled without a loss in resolution.

 

Another optional software to try is Scribus, which is similar to Quark X-Press.

Right now, you do not ave to change your distro. Mandriva is not dead - yet. :P

 

Check this thread please: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=75064&hl=

It explains pretty much everything you might want to know.

I couldn't have worded it better, John. Your post very much reflects what I am thinking. Mandriva will, because of some moron, go downhill again - very fast. And that's a pity.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just users looking for updates on the latest bad news (Adam leaving et al).

Not so probable. It's rather the new releases which attracted more and more users. When 2009.0 was released, they had temporarily over 2500 HPD on DW.com over a span of more than ten days.

Signed, too. :)

I guess that the /home/tmp folder is the one growing considerably - unless you have a filesharing / bittorrent tool installed, which can eat up enormous harddisk-space.

Just for curiosity, what would be considered the best "user friendly", distro now, for a "normal" user?

That depends on what you consider "a normal user" and what you consider "user friendly". For some people, configuring everything in a text-file is considered user-friendly (because of system transparency and learning included) while others prefer GUI-wizards for everything which may or may not work.

 

Basically, Mandriva is still considered one of the most "newcomer-friendly" distros, but others like Mepis, PCLinuxOS or Ubuntu are also pretty newcomer-friendly.

:o I am speechless....

 

:sad: :sad: :sad:

 

 

Good luck to you, Adam! And thanks for all that you have done for the community.

I looked at the /etc/fstab file but it doesn't make sense to me (I'm used to Fedora).

Fedora is no different to Mandriva. It uses UUIDs for every partition on your system since quite some time now. You can, however, set up the partitions in the old-fashioned way. The advantage of UUIDs is that every (network)drive will be perfectly identified by the system everytime it is plugged in (very useful for large corporate servers). The old fashioned way does not tell the system which of your harddrives/USB-sticks you are inserting, thus keeping things in a respective order (and finding all the needed files later) is not always possible by using the old naming convention. The disadvantage of UUIDs is of course that it looks like a mess and is rather hard/complicated to set up properly.

 

For more information on UUIDs, see http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID

I think Linux is ok. You just need to stay away from Mandriva and kde4.

This might be true for some users with special hardware combinations, but I would not say that this apples to everyone. Different people - different expectations - different hardware - different results. ;)

damnit, i downloaded mandriva xfce and another friken window bordering issue, FROM THE LIVE CD!!!!

Not your day, isn't it? :mellow:

 

About your Zenwalk installation problem: did you follow the Zenwalk howto already? It should basically work. ( http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?title=Index:HOWTO )

And does mandy 2008.1 still receive updates?

It does.

On the one hand, it is a pity that your Linux experience was peppered with "obstacles" that made you decide to run Vista. On the other hand, I do think that your frustration is caused by yourself. You had a perfectly working operating system with Mdv 2008.1, as you say. Nobody forced you to change, alter or upgrade the system. Never change a winning team.... well ... almost never. :)

 

Sure, Linux has its problems and for many people, KDE 4 is not ready for serious usage. Then, some people don't like Gnome. Okay. There are still a ton of other desktop-environments and window-managers available. I doubt that you gave all of them a chance (neither did I). :P Taking a break now and taking a look at Mdv now and then (in order to find out when KDE is "usable" again for you) might be an option that you might perhaps consider. While the KDE developers are doing their best, they cannot please everyone and fix everything immediately. Remember how long it took to develop Vista. Creating something new is a huge task and problems will arise. Vista has its share of problems. So just choose the system that will cause the least amount of problems for you. Nobody wants to force you to use Linux. Nobody will be upset, if you realise that Vista is right now better suited to your way of computing (btw: Linux is - by default - less of a gaming machine that a rock-stable, enterprise-ready operating-system for office-work).

 

A word about Fedora: Fedora is neither as simple as Mandriva, nor is it designed to be a second Mandy. Fedora is way more experimental (=bleeding edge) than Mandriva and (IMHO) geared towards experienced/veteran Linux users rather than people that have used Linux for maybe 6 to 12 months. Fedora-users are expected to know some basics about how Linux works. (no offence intended) :)

 

Good luck with Vista - and take a look at Linux now and then (even if it's only for the sheer fun of it).

Is 3D-Desktop enabled or disabled?

Have you checked bugzilla already? Sounds like a bug to me.

 

http://qa.mandriva.com

Quick reminder for everyone: Please don't start a distro-war. Criticism is okay, but bashing is not - so please keep this discussion civil. :)

Do you have an onboard graphics card, too? If yes, disable it in the BIOS.

Is there a setting where I can automatically enter the desktop where I left off, without logging the sole user (me) in??

In the MCC, System section you can enable auto-login.

Nice. :)

AAAAAAAAHHHH! Too late!

Welcome aboard. :)

 

Do you know the brand of your harddisk? (Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba,...) If yes, check the vendors homepage. Usually they do have some diagnostical tools available for checking the drive thoroughly. The description of your problem can be caused by a faulty harddrive but also from a faulty power management or bad RAM (you can check the integrity of your RAM by running the Memtest86 tool). Thus I would check all three things and/or send it in for repairs.

Don't panic. :)

 

At the command prompt, run as root XFdrake and set up your graphics card again. There is an open-source nv driver available, choose that one for now and restart the graphical server or your whole system. When that is done, add with easyurpmi the PLF repositories, then install the proprietary nvidia drivers - if you want full 3D support.

 

Mandriva does not use yum (this package manager is used in Fedora and Red Hat based distros!) but urpmi. ;)

Welcome aboard. :)

 

Follow tymes advice. If you install the modules from the software repositories in the Mandriva Control Center (MCC, aka Configure your computer), make sure to visit easyurpmi first ( http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php ) and enable the PLF-Software mirrors. They contain the nvidia modules that you need.

 

About the mouse: no clue if there is an easy way to configure your logitech mouse (I use very simple mice at work..). Have you googled for a solution already? I bet that there is some howto down the web.

Hmm... of those commands I have used pstree already. Am I a Linux-Guru now?

Wow. I'm trying to have a technical discussion here and I'm being called arrogant.

Just for the record: You are not arrogant. I can fully understand your arguments. It is disgusting that a printer will work with one release and not with another one. The easy solution: Stick to a release that supports your printer. The complex solution: Try to solve the problem by compiling and bugfixing. :wacko: