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[John D.]

Mike Diack wrote:

>Quick question to you all and particularly to any Linux Format
>subscribers....
>  
>
Yes, it turned up in the post yesterday morning and yes I installed it 
(2005 LE) yesterday evening.

I've had to get the 2.6.11 mandrake/mandriva kernel sources to install 
the nvidia driver, I've also uninstalled firefox 1.0.2, as that was 
superceded with 1.0.3 with a security patch. Though I've installed 
"proper" mozilla anyway.

Plus, as usual, I got opera, I'm currently downloading Firefox, 
Thunderbird and Open Office 2 beta (1.1.4 was uninstalled).

Lots of stuff is still labelled as Mandrake 10.2, but given the speed 
that they stuck the "mandriva" rebranding on things I suppose that'd be 
expected.

I certainly don't like the stylised penguin bootsplash, I can't decide 
if it looks more like mediocre US 70/80's image or given the penguins 
iris' changed to stars, whether he just looks "stoned" (man!).

Seem to be a few obvious improvements (it "found" Clares Rio Carbon mp3 
player straight away, and yes I can get at the files). It also seems to 
have spotted my PDA/smartphone as it started "Kpilot", though that'll 
not be much good, the phone is PDA based.

I think I'll stick with this for a while to play. Anyway, it's no real 
effort to re-install Gentoo later!

regards

John D.