mandrake 9.0

[mousepotato2]

...up and running on my main system....tri-boot with winME & win2000.....got work to do and a LOT of learning!!!!!!!!!!.....THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AllGamer]

enjoy... :t :D

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Ah good - another convert :D

I quite like mandrake, if only it supported my cable modem and direct X gaming :(

--jakk:t

[Cpl_Squirrel]

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[bushmaster]

Ah yes, once you get it up and running and configured for your hardware it's a pleasure.

[mousepotato2]

I quite like mandrake, if only it supported my cable modem and direct X gaming


...man I must have been lucky, I got my cable connection right off the bat...just checked 2020Kb/s

...now to get a better firewall, Instant messengers & other stuff running!!

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I got a Terajet tj210, thing is terrayon wont make linux USB drivers and i aint got a spare NIC to set it up with manually :(

--Jakk:t

[cdroman]

I've also got Mandrake 9 up and running as a dual boot with XP pro. I like the fact that a lot of programs came with it. I like that it was free. But I am dissappointed with how slow programs open compared to XP. In the time it takes to open a web browser, I can be on my third site already with IE6. It also doesn't support my digital camera, so I guess I'm going to have to learn to mount it as a usb storage device and see if I can use gphoto2 that way. It was very easy to install and configure, but starts up very slowly compared to XP. Pretty impressive so far, but some things are irritating, like shutting down, single click in XP, several clicks including logging off etc. in Mandrake.

[Cpl_Squirrel]

Originally posted by cdroman
... But I am dissappointed with how slow programs open compared to XP...

Any of the major distros are probably not optimized for your needs/hardware out of the box. With Mandrake in particular, I'd be sure to trim off all of the excess 'services' that run on startup. Ask the Mandrake horde how to do it if you don't know how. :p

After that, I'd look into customizing a kernel for your cpu and with only the features you need. You can also tweak your hard drive with the command line program hdparm.

man hdparm

Happy tweaking.

[cdroman]

Originally posted by Cpl_Squirrel


Any of the major distros are probably not optimized for your needs/hardware out of the box. With Mandrake in particular, I'd be sure to trim off all of the excess 'services' that run on startup. Ask the Mandrake horde how to do it if you don't know how. :p

After that, I'd look into customizing a kernel for your cpu and with only the features you need. You can also tweak your hard drive with the command line program hdparm.

man hdparm

Happy tweaking.

Thanks for the info.