sjaglin Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Hi, At the moment I have on my partitions : -MDV2006 updated by Kiosk -Cooker with main contrib debug and PLFs -2007 32Bits with main contrib updates form official srces, plfs, beryl. The 2006 is very stable and I will keep it this way. The cooker is cooker and therefore I don t mind if I have to repair it now and again. I would like to know: - Can I add thac and ze on my 2007 -Is it useful? -Will that make my system very unstable? -Is that as risky as cooker? Thanks, as always very basic stuff but I am quite basic... Stef :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 I like stable, so I only use Mandriva stuff, never any third party repos in case something goes pear-shaped, or just plainly doesn't work. It's each what everyone prefers. Take a look in the Mandriva Enhanced RPM's forum here, have a read, and see what you think. The repo information might even be there in some recent posts on how to add thac's/ze's rpm repos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 I also dare to say: none. Mandriva is not a bleeding edge distro- if you want some sort of bleeding edge then Cooker is the "politically correct" solution, but then Cooker is often broken- maybe never BLR, but nevertheless broken. If you feel that what Mandriva gives you is old and dull, then it may be the right time to explore another, more up-to-date, non-Mandriva based distro- or probably try PCLinuxOS, which is easily misinterpreted as Mandriva, but it's much more up-to-date, and (always IMHO) having packages of better quality. It's far from perfect, and has limited repos, but it's surely worth a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted November 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 Thanks for the tips, It s true that I am trying around a bit at the moment, I ll stick to Mandriva, I eventually managed to setup Beryl on my box with the new nvidia drivers and that really looks and work great. I ll have a go at Gentoo as it looks quite good, tried Suse or susedows shall I say, tried knoppix and other stuff but not yet PClinux os, It's my next one then! Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 I like Gentoo :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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