"I like Ubuntu. With each incarnation I'm seeing improvements and betterments that make the OS better, more robust, more user friendly and more fully-featured. In fact, Ubuntu 8.04 is the first Linux distro that I've come across that I would consider loading onto my notebook to replace Windows. Throughout my testing Ubuntu 8.04 beta has been reliable and performed flawlessly. Bottom line, Hardy Heron is, for me at least, the best Linux distro ever," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes.
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Member since:2006-02-15
Well the name for one.... How the heck can anyone take a distro whose name sounds like a gay male dancer seriously is beyond me....
Hmm...Maybe it's just you who's thinking of such gay male dancers? Atleast I didn't come to think of anything even remotely like that :O
Sounds good to me. Let's see first thing they need to do is install Gnome...
I am using GNOME on both my desktop and laptop under Mandriva. Works just fine and peachy 
The only thing I really have to complain about is that the default installation didn't include Eye of gnome or Gthumb..I always set up Gthumb to import photos from digital camera, and Eog is just such a good no-fuss image viewer. So anyways, what was it again about installing/using Gnome under Mandriva? ^^
Member since:2005-08-07
Nah, not really...it was a common joke back in the day when they first announced the name change after coming out of their buy up spree. Personally I'd have probably gone with either of the names of the two companies Mandrake bought out...Lycoris sounds like candy and Connectiva has a vaguely networked sound to it. Mandriva? Let's say it slowly, shall we? Man-driv-ah! Ahh...I'll pass thank you!
The only thing I really have to complain about is that the default installation didn't include Eye of gnome or Gthumb..I always set up Gthumb to import photos from digital camera, and Eog is just such a good no-fuss image viewer. So anyways, what was it again about installing/using Gnome under Mandriva? ^^ Hmmm so they have GNOME support also? Out of the box? How integrated is it? I see you mentioned its missing a few apps... Sorry to sound so ignorant but last I checked Mandriva had GNOME support the way Red Hat has KDE support...
--bornagainpenguin
EDIT-- clarified a point
Edited 2008-03-28 13:55 UTC
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2005-08-07
Well the name for one.... How the heck can anyone take a distro whose name sounds like a gay male dancer seriously is beyond me....
At least with Ubuntu I can always explain it's the African word that means...
Errr...sadly I don't remember it that way. Really, as far as I was concerned Mandrake, Lycoris, and Connectiva all had issues that made me unable to make any serious use out of them. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't most of their user friendliness from using colorful and nicely tarted up themes more oe less? Whenever you wanted to get anything changed in the actual system itself you always had to use distro specific tools which never quite seemed to integrate well with the rest os the system...
Sounds good to me. Let's see first thing they need to do is install Gnome...
--bornagainpenguin