grendal Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Since I haven't seen a poll here in a while and we have a nice new shiney mandy out for a little bit, lets see where ranks. [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 I voted "good". It does its job very well - if it works with your hardware setup. I would have voted "great" if RAID and SATA drive setups would work better and if my old (linux compatible) OKI printer would be supported again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 I voted good since it had it's problems with me. Mandriva 2006 seemed better as I never had any symptoms or problems with anything - even when it had pre-release xorg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 It's good, maybe a good plus. I was able to get it installed and working in VMware Player, so I was pleased about that. No problems with my SATA drives and the faster bootup/shutdown is nice. I haven't had any significant problems so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 (edited) Voted "Good At Best" because of the post-installation problems with urpmi (the installation from the Mandriva One CD was absolutely flawless-maybe the most painless one I've ever made!), and since I cannot give it a second chance in my current system (the JMicron SATA/PATA controller not supported), I can't improve my mark. Edited October 31, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 Well Ive elected for 'good'. Which it is in comparison to FC5 it does all that & more stable (much more). Unfortunatley the printing side on 2007 is just not working (yet) & Ive read a few issues from other OPs who have had similar issues with printing.. All in all its still on my HD which can only be a 'good' thing ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 good. this is the first mandriva installation i have that setup my wireless almost painlessly. i had to use the firmware on a package for another distro (noarch). the ndiswrapper pointed to a dead link so i am not sure why they cant offer the firware on plf? nevertheless, installation was still good in my laptop. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 I voted good, all things on my laptop works accept for my pcmcia w-lan card. It works with all other versions of Mandy with ndiswrapper but not with 2007. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 I voted Good at best because I had quite a lot of problems so far that a newbie would not have bee able to overcome therefore I think it is still a development release. 2006 updated with kiosk gives me perfect results first time. Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowchaser Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Ok at best: because still some bugs that are a real pain.. 3ddesktop multiply users forget it, KDE not updating menus missing lots of icons etc, If it wasn't for MUB i would've scrap it on the 2nd day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Would like to vote, but I honestly havn't tried Mandriva 2007 yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Good for me. If there was a very good I would have used it, great would have been a bit overexaggerated for me, because there are some minor glitches, but overall it really works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Would like to vote, but I honestly havn't tried Mandriva 2007 yet. I tried it with a vmware session ... but with all the problems Ive seen here I can't go above just about OK... even that's a push... the basic gripe being a screwed URMPI and all the previously supported hardware that no longer works... its hard to say which of these is most serious... I guess if your HW works then its not an issue? until the next release when perhaps it doesn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Would like to vote, but I honestly havn't tried Mandriva 2007 yet.I downloaded the dvd recently...going to give it a try. I'm one of those, check out the most recent release and then delete types. I much prefer my more-power-user-oriented arch install (or, now, OS X on my laptop :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 1, 2006 Report Share Posted November 1, 2006 Managed to fix one of my long term problems with 2007 so it's getting a little better for me :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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