Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Nov 2005 09:29 UTC
"While it's not my distribution of choice, Mandriva 2006 definitely has some serious allure to new and experienced desktop Linux users alike. It's dead easy to install, a breeze to use and configure, has enough applications included to keep even the most die-hards happy, and it's got overwhelming support from the company and community at large." Read more here.
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RE[2]: I installed Mandriva 2006
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And I like it very much.
The only thing not working out of the box is my TV tuner card. The reason for this is the stupidity of the manufacturers, who put the SAME indentification string into DIFFERENT subtypes of cards.
All other apps I need can be installed either directly from the disk or from a contrib repository mirror.
The special apps I need are:
- DeCSS and Xine for watching my DVDs
- Audacity for simple music editing (I sing in a chorus)
- Lilypond for music notation (also for the chorus)
- Hugin for making a panorama from multiple images
What else is used on this computer:
- An anonymous ftp server for letting my friends download photos without messing around with passwords
- Latex for some text layout
- OpenOffice.org 2.0, for spreadsheets and presentations
- KDETV for watching TV (I liked domino day really much)
- QCAD for occasional technical drawings
- And of course e-mail and web browsing.