dexter11 Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Mandriva has released a new livecd with the Metisse window manager inside. If you don't know what Metisse is, you can watch a video here . You can read about the functionalities here. You can download it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 (edited) Tried it last night for about 40 minutes. Everything was working what I tried. The Metisse project seem to to focus a way more on usability than on eyecandy. I forgot there's a FAQ too: http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse/faq Edited January 26, 2007 by dexter11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilight Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 I downloaded it 2 days ago and tested yesterday night. I am completely disappointed about this live cd. 1) It does not display anywhere the boot options if there are any. 2) Once i get to the desktop nothing works. I press "My computer" nothing. I press "applications" nothing. Maybe after 5 or 6 seconds something starts to reveal. 3) I have tried it in three different laptops (Mine with ATI Radeon 9200 Mobility, Another one with Intel graphics, and another one with Nvidia 7300go. The same thing occurs as described in #2 4) GNOME; Why not KDE; Anyway this is not a problem. I have already checked the Mandriva image with md5 checksum. Everything seems ok. Any ideas; Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted January 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 For 2: AFAIK ATI 9200 support has been dropped from the official driver. Your problem seems to be driver related to me. It's just plain slow if I got it right. Apart from the bad or missing driver this is a live CD it is much faster after installation. 3. Metisse doesn't support fully KDE yet. Full KDE support is expected from KDE 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 LiveCD's are always slow. They don't have the luxury of having the fast hard drive platters to quickly spin around and get data from. They have to load everything into a fake file system created inside your RAM. Short and skinny: LiveCD's are always lagging in speed/response due to the nature of the technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilight Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 (edited) Probably I didnt make myshelf pretty clear. Its not going slow because it is goind to read the data from the cd. I dont know how to describe it exactly but imagine this: 1) You have a single core CPU 2500+ Athlon 2) You have folding@home real time priority 3) You try to open "My Computer" What will happen? It wont open unless you are lucky and it takes 30 seconds to open. I say the above to describe how my computer responds when I try to click on something. If it loads from the cd and delays i will notice. And I have already tried many live cds. (PC LinuxOS has saved me a couple of times.) As for the driver? What can I say! The FAQ says that even a RIVA TNT is working. And the other laptop with Nvidia card w/ Wide screen (high end one) was as slow as mine. What could go wrong? Edited January 29, 2007 by twilight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Have you tried turning folding@home off? Considering this is a...hm...beta, basically, I'm not surprised that it's not working quite right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congdonb Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Tyme is right. After reading all the other forums, my understanding is that the recent Mandriva 2007 One Metisse Gnome CD is a quick to release not much if at all tested release put out there to get feedback as they plan to have Metisse available in the upcoming Mandriva 2007 Spring release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twilight Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Hmm I see, Thank you. I guess I have to be a little patient until 2007 Spring for the new Mandriva Release. BTW Which Xorg will be available in the new release? 7.1 or 7.2? I am asking this because ATI has not released drivers for 7.2 yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted February 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 That depends on when will 7.2 come out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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