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Not much to add to ffis post. UUID has is advantages and disadvantages, that's for sure. From a system-stability point of view, UIIDs are better than devicenode hda or sda entries. But - as you realised - they are not as easy to manage and really user-unfriendly. I am getting a bit off-topic here, but another thing that turns me off even more than UUIDs is the new xorg which leaves the xorg.conf pretty empty as it tries to automatically detect the graphical devices at each boot. Yes, it has some advantages too, but ... how shall I fix an xorg.conf file if there is nothing written in it? Lately I get the impression that Linux-development has taken the wrong path...

Welcome aboard. :) I do have a laptop with the same graphics card and honestly - it sucks. The only distros that worked quite well with it were Mandriva 2007.0, 2007.1, 2008.0 and Knoppix. All other distros (SUSE, Fedora, DSL, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) that I tested were rather problematic. I haven't found a working small linux distro for this laptop yet (Maybe Puppy-linux?). If you find one that works out of the box with the CLE266, let me know. PS: I was more than once tempted to throw that laptop out of the window because of its sucking hardware....

Have you tried using a different mirror already? Usually this is a server-side problem.

Seven pages is huge for an article! Apparently you made a really good impression so that they considered it worth to spend seven pages to you in their mag. Hat's off. :)

Thanks for sharing your impressions. BTW: [flame]Who cares about KDE?[/flame] :P On a more serious note: The package removal is a nice idea, but it could make some people nervous, that is true. BUT: If I were a complete noob and would see the distro telling me that a number of packages is not needed, I would always go the safe route and click on "no" and thus stop the removal process. After all, harddisk-space is not as limited and expensive nowadays as it was ten years ago.

Because they believe in cloud-computing and want to offer the "perfect browser" for supporting cloud-computing. Once cloud-computing is more popular, they will most likely charge for using google-docs etc. Bah!....

Yepp. Nice move.

Well, that "privacy problem" is hardly surprising as something similar was/is already included in the Picasa license agreements IIRC. Actually, I tend to not use google and its services whenever possible (the only real showstopper is that my mail-account is at google since years. Meh...). Google has become way too big, way too powerful and too snobbish for my taste.

My debian lenny box.

Now, let me count... I have: Iceweasel Firefox Galeon Epiphany Safari Konqueror Opera Dillo Lynx ... to choose from. ...and now I get Google Chrome... Do I need it? No. And if it is as useless as Googles Office application, then the much better. Move along. :P

Not yet, I was still looking for a solution to the problem, but after searching the web for hours without finding an "easy fix" for this and hacking the C3 boxes again and again, I will file a bug. I guess that it is not i586 related in general but exclusively to the C3 processor (which is not as popular as AMD or Intel.). PS: Bug was already filed by someone else

AFAIK, if you have 2 GB RAM and want to have a working hibernate mode, you need the 4GB RAM. Or am I wrong?... :unsure:

Well, it simply doesn't work on the old C3 processors. Trust me. All previous Mandriva versions work okay, but sadly not 2008.1. I have worked a whole week on getting 2008.1 to run on a rather old laptop and a desktop system that are both powered by the C3 processor. I even went back to a minimal 2008.0 and did an upgrade later using the ftp-mirrors. Same result on both machines: System hangs when trying to decompress the kernel.

In case anyone wonders why he/she cannot install Mandriva on a system using the VIA C3 processor, the answer is that the C3 processor architecture does only work with i386, i486 and i586 compiled kernels. Mandriva ships since 2008.1 spring an i686 compiled kernel on the install-media which will not work with the processor. The system will install, but it will not boot as it is unable to decompress the kernel. Quick solution to this problem: Use Mandriva 2008.0 and stick to it (or install another distro that does support the C3 processor, like Debian, Slackware, Suse and Fedora).

As said, everything is okay. Normally, Windows should have appeared automatically on the boot-menu. At least it always did when I installed Mandriva alongside XP or Vista on any system during the past years. Admittedly, vi is a rather hard to use editor for a newcomer. Nano would be a much better choice and I do not understand why it isn't installed by default yet. *shrugs*. If you want to install this really easy to use editor, just install the nano package through the Mandriva Control Center (aka Configure your system) and start nano later from a terminal or the command line/virtual terminal (you get to the latter one by pressing e.g. ctrl+alt+F1 and get back to the desktop by pressing ctrl+alt+F7). the procedure would be: ctrl+alt+F1 user@localhost Desktop]$ su now enter the root passsword (can not be seen) [root@localhost Desktop]# nano /boot/grub/menu.lst the file will open now and can be altered. Add the changes you want, then press ctrl+o for saving and ctrl+x for exiting [root@localhost Desktop]# exit ctrl+alt+F7 finished! :)

Use the Mandriva Linux Control Center to remove all your sources. Go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org and follow the instructions for the desired version, you need at least the main source but it is recommended that you include also contrib and non-free. If you want access to a lot of extra programs that are not officially 'approved' you can also add the plf-free and plf-nonfree sources. Note also the licenses for these are different! Make sure the command that you obtain to be typed is all on one line - word wrap will destroy the command. This will download the package list (around 10MB) Now execute urpmi --auto-select This will ask to update lots of packages and their dependencies. Accept... wait... wait a little more (it may ask to remove some packages, this is normal as some programs become obsolete or conflict with new versions)... wait for the installation...and enjoy. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi/Upgrade

I don't think that John was upset when he wrote that. It can be read in two ways. "Upset-mode" and one "slightly-puzzled-mode". JMHO. :)

If your partitions are ntfs, then try mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/part1 or mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/part1 maybe that one works...

IMHO, the 3D stuff is a nice graphical toy, but it will not improve the usability of the system for the average user. The only thing I have activated in compiz on my computers is the dropshadows. The cube was always useless and annoying for me.

Set up a new user account for testing purposes and check if the delay happens again if you log into that new account.

Just for clarity: Was the Blue screen of death caused by Windows after selecting the Windows boot entry in grub, that is, when Windows took over the booting process? In that case, the problem was caused by Windows, not by Mandrivas grub. Changing or replacing the bootloader will not repair a borked Windows installation. Where exactly? Please add all the error messages and hardware specs that you can provide. To me it smells like a serious case of "format the whole harddrive and start from scratch".

Welcome aboard. 1. please do not post the same issue in more than one forum-section. Thanks. :) 2. can you please post here what you get as an error message (if there is any) when you want to run e.g. the mcc from a terminal? [root@localhost]# mcc This will perhaps give us more information on what causes your problem. Also: check with an editor like vi or nano the /var/log/messages file for error messages.

Yes, it does. Have you checked your system already, booting with a different kernel?

Now, after having tested it, I share your opinion. Just firefox with some extra-plugins. It might be useful for those who hang around in flickr, youtube etc. all the time, but it is definitely not something that I will ever need.

http://www.flock.com/ The so-called "social webbrowser". In case anyone has tried it: What do you think of it? Worth a shot? Or is it more of a toy for those with too much spare-time on their hands? :unsure: (Downloading it right now in order to test it )