Artificial Intelligence Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 After a long vacation away from Mandriva (or mandrake when I left it) a year ago. I've renewed my Silver membership and in this moment I'm writting this I'm downloading the powerplus CDs (21 hours left ^^). I have learned alot with ubuntu, no doubt of that. Got familiar with apt-get and dpkg installations commands, manually configs diffrent stuff, compiling more advanced stuff, kernels etc. Now I've to set myself in how Mandriva works, urmpi, rpm etc. I've forgot most of these things and where to look for cool stuff for Mandriva, but soon I'll be back on the track. So I need to relearn some stuff and I hope you guys will help me out ^^ This also mean I'll use my artistic skills in the favour of Mandriva (to few Mandriva stuff in <insert DE>-look.org and I can better help out in forums answering questions instead of being only moderator. The AI Dude who came home after a long journey [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 21 hours?... Are you using a 64k modem or are there too many people downloading from the mirrors? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 I properly didn't set it up correct. It's only downloading with 55k/sec but my connection can handle 120k/s Though it's allmost 4 Gbyte of download Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 I set off a download of Debian which was set to take about 72 hours for a 4GB DVD using jigdo, which they recommend as being the best (couldn't download with torrents at work), than using the FTP site directly. Not that I'm leaving Mandriva, just want to try another distro :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Umm.. if you want to try Debian (only for testing it), why don't you go the easy way and use either Kanotix or Debian Pure? It's only one CD for download. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 I never thought of that :P I did have a Knoppix Live CD, didn't realise that Kanotix was based on Debian, but will try the Debian Pure on Monday when I'm in work, only got 128Kbps at home! Sorry about that "Off-Topic". :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 You can do a hd isntall with Kanotix that is a 1:1 Debian system. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 While Kanotix does have its own small repos and packages (kernels, initscripts...) it is mostly Debian Sid. I'm not sure this is the right time to mess with Sid though, as the conversion from Xfree to Xorg has still left quite a few broken packages at the Sid repos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Ummm...guys, I really hate to interupt your discussion, but it's way OT from the original :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Sorry AI, back on topic guys :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 I just upgraded to Mandriva LE 2005 on my daughter's box. I haven't played with it in years so I'm in the process of relearning it myself. I see questions on the board that I know the answers to - in Gentoo. Now I hope I'll be able to give answers for how to do things in Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Hehe... I want to be able to answer questions, too. This is one major reason why I always keep a Mandriva partition on my secondary 160GB hdd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 After a long vacation away from Mandriva (or mandrake when I left it) a year ago. I've renewed my Silver membership and in this moment I'm writting this I'm downloading the powerplus CDs (21 hours left ^^).I have learned alot with ubuntu, no doubt of that. Got familiar with apt-get and dpkg installations commands, manually configs diffrent stuff, compiling more advanced stuff, kernels etc. Now I've to set myself in how Mandriva works, urmpi, rpm etc. I've forgot most of these things and where to look for cool stuff for Mandriva, but soon I'll be back on the track. So I need to relearn some stuff and I hope you guys will help me out ^^ This also mean I'll use my artistic skills in the favour of Mandriva (to few Mandriva stuff in <insert DE>-look.org and I can better help out in forums answering questions instead of being only moderator. The AI Dude who came home after a long journey <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You shoulda waited a couple of days for 2006! Might see ya around the club, if ye can be bothered... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Is it member release or official release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Is it member release or official release? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Official, the club's getting first digs about ten days before orders for boxes are available, and about a month before free is publically available. Early seeders were given access to the Iso's on Friday, club members should be able to download from the start of next week (Monday, if the sources are to be trusted). Although I reckon the excrement is going to hit the fan, as it appears some "Early seeders" aren't interested in seeding at all, the just wanted first shot, but then again only time will tell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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