aRTee Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 This thread is for reactions to the third and final part of my Mandriva Linux 2006 review. Any comments, corrections, flames or praise, please leave them in this topic. I hope you'll enjoy the read, aRTee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Whenever you burn an iso image, K3B will calculate the md5sum for you. You may click an ellipsis button near the MD5 sum field, and then you're prompted to enter an MD5 sum to compare with. Otherwise, the big green "V" at the left of this very field is a bit misleading as it means just that the calculation itself is successful ( and not that the image is all right ). not a trivial thing to do since GIMP is GTK/GNOME, and it wasn't until KDE 3.something (IIRC) that this actually worked properly It wasn't until KDE 3.smth that KDE started supporting XDND properly :) As long as both toolkits support XDND, there should be no problem with "drag & drop". I don't have a two button laptop like some people do, so I have no need to remap the right button to take over the action of the middle button. Has "Emulate3buttons" option of X been cancelled recently? :) No need to remap, just press both buttons simultaneously, and voila - middle button is emulated. Something that is not solved: kmix. Why do I need all this? Try kamix for a change - it allows configuring which channels are displayed. And do believe me that I'm equally eager to see some normal mixer for SB Live! / Audigy cards. Just like one Creative provides for, sad as it is, Windows. payed Shouldn't it be rather "paid"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Nice job discussing the Sony rootkit. I agree with you that the more attention called to this the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Chalex, the laptop button remapping was a hint at Linus' harsh words towards GNOME ;) Indeed, payed => paid. Thanks for your feedback! daniewicz, yeah, I couldn't leave it. I particularly liked a hint on slashdot about how to get the masses to stay away from DRM CDs by calling them 'drm infected'... Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for reading! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 artee, another nice article! Congrats on your first landing too! :D A little humour is always good to see! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adrian_sev Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Nice article indeed :) Can I ask, how did you made your gkrellm transparent ? Its a very nice efect :) Once again , very nice job with your reviews !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Ian, Adrian, thanks for the responses, glad you liked it. Ian, I actually managed to land properly on my second attempt.. not half bad. Adrian, it's called the 'invisible' theme. BTW welcome to this board, and enjoy Linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6h Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 On my laptop, the software mixer constantly took around 20% of cpu (apparently to be able to do software mixing since the hardware can't do hardware mixing) so I just avoid kmix on that system, I use aumix instead - good thing Linux offers choice..! Don't you find this sentence weird ? Don't you know that kmix does not do software mixing ? Fix this please ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MickeyMouse Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Thanks for sharing your Mandriva 2006 review, very nice read. I joint the Mandriva Club (Silver Membership) after I bought my laptop in December 2005. It came preinstalled with Win XP SP2 and wanted to try the Mandriva 2006 XMas Club Release on it. I did setup partitions and procedded with the installation: everything went smoothly and everything worked seamlessly after the initial setup and configurations. WiFi, Bluetooth, Networking, CD Burning, USB devices, URPMI, etc, etc... That was not expected since the laptop is a top of the line unit from Dell with the latest hardware onboard. I only have praises for the work put in this distro by the coders at Mandriva. Dual boot worked very well. Just to make it clear, here are the specs for the laptop. Dell Precision M70 Pentium-M 2.13 1 Gig of DDR-2 main memory 80 Gigs 5400 rpm HD NVidia Quadro FX GO 1400 with 256 meg WUXGA 15.4" screen Intel 2915 Pro Wireless chipset Toshiba Bluetooth 8X DVD+/-RW (Samsung TS-L532B) I use a Linksys WRT54G V4 wireless router that works flawlessly with the setup. I tried a few Netgear wireless router but found they were lacking in stability and lost connections a few times a day( not good for irc channel holders) Linux has indeed come a long way and is now ready for Prime Time. Take care, MickeyMouse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 MickeyMouse, thanks for the info and feedback! k6h - if I use kmix (also on the tray, minimised), my laptop has a load of 20%. If I close/quit kmix, the load goes down to a more normal 5%. Aumix doesn't have this problem, and I posted a bugreport about it. Somewhere it was hinted that this is to do with software mixing. I know that kmix doesn't do the mixing, but it is kmix that has this issue. I don't see why I shouldn't write that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teledyn Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 What became of the /mnt/removable? I have a flash-card reader that worked with every prior release of Mandrake/Mandriva, but after upgrading to 2006, there is no /dev/sda1, control panel says this is a usb storage device but says the driver is unknown. is there a general page somewhere for upgrade migration issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 (edited) /mnt/removable works fine for me; open konqueror and go to media:/ (just put that in the url field), then see if it shows up. If it doesn't, weird, you may want to open a topic. Since this might be a kernel related issue, you could try with the multimedia kernel... [edit] sometimes it gets a different name than 'removable', CFcards out of my wife's Canon get a name like /mnt/CANON... Edited March 16, 2006 by aRTee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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