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

[Tom Ventresco]

Thanks.  You just saved me a load of work and worry.  I have not used
Mandrake for a few years but I am happy to be back.  Jpilot it is.

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Tom Ventresco
Austintown Local Schools
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There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and
those who can't.
LJ April 2000

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Chris Kacoroski wrote:

> 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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