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I simply switched to verbose boot-mode. Problem solved ... sort of.

Another option: Samsung SCX4200 - bw/laser printer, scanner, and copy-station. Not big, not expensive but it works well in 2008.1 - if you install the driver from the Samsung web-site.

I disagree with a lot of scarecrows comments though. Well, all of them.

Same thing here. I wonder why he put so much hatred into his post... after all... it is only a piece of software. :unsure:

Check again if changing the look causes it to crash. If yes, you might consider filing a bug.

Have you tried removing the config file from your home folder already? I once had the same hapening when using OOwriter and after removing the config-file, it worked well again.

FYI, OpenOffice 3.0 is already included in Mandriva 2009.0. (not that you download it from the net only to find out that you have it already installed by default B))

Welcome aboard.

 

Is it perhaps somehow related to this? https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=69924&hl=

Not all mirrors seem to have synced yet. The number of available mirrors is - indeed - very limited right now and thus the working mirrors probably overloaded. I keep sharing the dvd with bittorrent. Would be nice if others would do the same.

We'll see. ;)

See https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44720

For those, too lazy to read it, here it is again:

 

Ok, it seems this was fixed, according to ennael on irc :

 

$ GET http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list | md5sum

077f2e18972dce94a32c2e21f5368b9d -

 

People need to erase /var/cache/urpmi/mirrors.cache to take this in account.

Ugh... wow.... :blink:

I have some reservations about 2009.0, I think the gnome and xfce versions are very good but kde4 (and kde3) :unsure:

Who uses KDE? :P Just kidding.

and getting 2009.1 updates...not good at  all....

Haven't noticed that yet. Thanks for the info.

Ah... the website is being reuploaded with the new info. Only a few more minutes.... :)

 

Haven't seen the official release notes anywhere on the net yet, but just wait a couple of minutes. ;)

 

2009.0 Errata: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata

 

PS: It is there... but only on the french site till now. http://www.mandriva.com/fr/produit/mandriva-linux-one

Welcome Mandriva 2009. I just downloaded the final dvd-iso (found a mirror that had it prematurely available for download. :P), gave it a look already and - it rocks! B)

IIRC, Xandros survives because they - like Red Hat - concentrated on the business market quite early and still do have enough paying customers there. Xandros is often mentioned in reviews (at least in german Linux magazines) as a good alternative to Red Hat and praised for its good data-exchange with Windows machines.

Booting in five seconds is great, but - as IIRC adam wiliamson pointed out somewhere else - it is only possible if you build the distro for very specific hardware, say: only one harddisk, only one motherboard, one gfx-chip, one network-controller, one display, one RAM stick,.... The more hardware the system shall support, the less likely it is to boot in only a few seconds. That's how it is today. Maybe, we will see even more modularisation of the kernel in the future (much like x became more modular).

Well, distrowatch is (or better: was for a very long time) biased against Mandriva because Mandriva once had the "club" which was available only to powerpack-users. And in powerpack, there were proprietary drivers and codecs included that the "free" users "had" to install themselves. This was seen as some kind of elitism or snobbishness by people like L. Bodnar that "doesn't belong to linuxland". But in reality, most distros do not ship with proprieteary stuff so this was and is a complete nonsense-argument against Mandriva.

Then, some people were not happy with the yearly release cycle that Mandriva switched to for a short period of time because they could no longer play with the latest and greatest. Thus some users switched to other, more up-to-date distros (others switched because "mandriva" sounded "gay" to them :huh:). Mandriva was/is not the only distro that had a "rather bad" reputation for being "outdated" back then. Debian was considered some kinda dinosaur, Slackware was too conservative.

Distrowatch was/is known for being biased against several distributions. Among them are Novell/SUSE, Mandriva, and more recently Gentoo.

 

Do I care about Mr. Bodnars personal preferences? Nope. B)

OK, I got the logo up on the website :)

 

I'm really impressed, and so now I'd like to put a bit on the website to thank you for creating it for me. So, if you're OK with that, I'll put it up.

It's okay with me. It was a pleasure to help you. :)

You have mail. :)

I read it already, but came home at 2 a.m. the last two days from work. Thus, I preferred sleeping to working again. You will get the files today. :)

If some keys are not configured (especially apostrophes and such), then please check first if you really have the right locale setting selected on your system. There are usually several options available for many languages. Not all of them support/enable such "special" characters.

Okay, then I will send you the modified star logo. Just tell me in which dimensions/resolution you need them and I will send them to you along with the svg-sources.

Could you please give us some information on

1.) which version of Mandriva you installed

2.) which graphics card you have?

 

If the system drops to a command line, then it means (in 99% of cases) that your graphics card was not configured properly. This can be fixed by installing the proper kernel (e.g. one with the right nvidia modules or ati modules included) and running afterwards as root

XFdrake

which will start the graphics-configuration-tool.

1st option: Boot in failsafe and go into interactive mode by hitting "i" after you bypassed the graphical boot-screen and when asked to start the numlock service, type no.

2nd option: Try booting with one of the following bootparameters

linux noapic

linux noapic nolapic

3rd option: wait a few days until 2009.0 is officially released. Beta and RC versions are not stable but bug-squashing releases.

Okay, adding the "L" to the S-logo will ruin the design. I tried a dozen options and it really looks ugly. So that is not a good idea. If I shall incorportate the L in any way, then the whole design must be done from scratch again.