ral Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 (edited) Have not use Mandrake Linux since 8.2. Went to RedHat (8.2 than 9) after that lured by the simpler Gnome based Bluecurve desktop and nice lookign fonts. For the past year I have been running Windows again. I was disheartened when RedHat drop its desktop line and did not feel like going to Fedora which sounds like a beta forever. Anyway, I picked up a copy of Mandrake 10. Was curious to see how it stack up... and I was amaze.d. I have a separate hard drive to install Linux on so I told the intaller to use available free space and installed the default options (I forgot whether I selected desktop or something). Instalation took all of ten minutes.... WOW. Used to remember when Installing it took 45 minutes. Went with the default to see what it look like and am very happy with the default install. Not too cluttered, just a good selection of programs. Had to add Mozilla (preferred browser and kppp for my dial up, but that was a breeze too). 20-25 minutes from intall to the time I am typing this message. Am glad to be back... and it looksl ike Linux is really desktop ready. Edited May 1, 2004 by ral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Okay... have encountered one problem. Totem is unable to play my DVD's. With some DVD's it can play the intro. But it never makes it to the movie before crashing... LG DVD/CDRW. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 got Xine installed? Use it. afaik Totem on mandrake is compiled with gstreamer which contrary to many developer's belief is as stable as an easter egg on the edge of a cliff in a storm. Dont got Xine installed? Install it -- or mplayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuyo Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Okay... have encountered one problem. Totem is unable to play my DVD's. With some DVD's it can play the intro. But it never makes it to the movie before crashing... LG DVD/CDRW. Any ideas? Do you have libdvdcss installed? Tha's all I needed to install to get DVD playing going smoothly with Totem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Thanks gents. @Yuyo: Where can I find libdvdcss? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 @Yuyo: Where can I find libdvdcss? ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...rake/10.0/i586/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Thanks gents. My DVD's from the US now work. Unfortunately, the ones produced locally (Region 3) still do not... but good enough for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted May 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Burner working fine too. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted May 3, 2004 Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 Hi ral, good to see you're back, and even better to see you like it.. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted May 3, 2004 Report Share Posted May 3, 2004 Not much not to like once you have everything working. Truly, Mandrake 10 compared to its previous versions... just make them look pale in comparison. The rate of progress in Linux just continues to amaze me. Oh yeah, welcome (back[?]) on the board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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