[K12OSN] OT: Mandrake 10 mini review on a laptop..

[Chris Kacoroski]

Tom,

One note from a long Mandrake user, do not use Kontact with the Palm. 
There are some severe bugs that will wipe out the Palm databases 
(happened twice to me before I figured out what was going on).  A good 
replacement that is rock solid is jpilot.

cheers,

ski

Tom Ventresco wrote:

> Hi,
> I just purchased the Mandrake Discover package and installed it on my Toshiba 
> laptop this weekend.  Here goes.
> 
> Machine Type:  A Toshiba Satellite A10-S167  (P4 2.2 256  30GIGHD)  CDR/DVD
> 
> Installation:
> I used PartitionMagic 7 to resize my NTFS XP partition.  Easy.
> Boot up to Mandrake CD#1 
> Answer a few questions --> IMHO always install development stuff - you never 
> know when you will have to compile. I did a laptop install with KDE and 
> Gnome.   
> Do a manual partiton setup of the open space on /dev/hda. 
> Feed CD's.
> Configure X
> Check that the system sees your hardware.
> Reboot.
> LILO gives an easy menu which boots Mandrake, shell, safe mode, and windows.
> 
> You know the drill, create a user bing bing bing. Hey cool feature .  Auto 
> login one user.  I have my regular user account autologin to KDE.  
> 
> I have congfigured Kontact for my e-mail and Palm.  Easy.  Kontact is using my 
> school IMAP account and my home POP3 account.  Easy.
> 
> The performance is fine.  This Mandrake 10 boots faster than the XP install on 
> the same machine.
> 
> Mandrake 10 comes with OO 1.1 so an update is in order but I have not done 
> that yet.
> 
> Another neat thing - Konsole terminal program can use vt420 keyboard 
> emulation.  Yes some of us still use DEC stuff or is it Compaq no no its 
> HP :)
> 
> So if you are looking to make the switch from XP to linux, Mandrake is not a 
> bad choice in terms of installation, hardware detection and performance.  The 
> packaged bells and whistles are fine. Note on sound hardware:  The program 
> "Audacity" had a bug when I had "Sound System Notifications" turned "on." 
> My Finding Nemo DVD did NOT PLAY.  GIMP is sweet.  If a wine install goes well 
> I might test this out in our treasurer's office on 6 workstations.
> 
> I just noticed that my "As-you-type spell checking disabled" prompt at the 
> bottom of this window....rats please forgive the type-o's.  
> 
> Wow this is fun.
> 
> Tom Ventresco
> Austintown Local Schools
> 
> 
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