[Sussex] Searching for a distro....

Mike Diack mike_diack at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 15 10:40:35 UTC 2008


I have to say I'm with you on this Des. I've been a Mandriva fan since 7.0. 
The only really annoying thing is that it still has the bug whereby it 
overwrites your MBR even if you tell it to install it's bootloader 
elsewhere. A real pain for those of us who multiboot....

Mike

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From: "Desmond Armstrong" <desmond.armstrong at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 10:08 PM
To: "Sussex LUG" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Searching for a distro....

>
>> I've been using Ubuntu for about a year now on my laptop and I figure
>> that it's time for a change! :o)
>>
> My choice is Mandriva, I use the full version, (4.3GB on the DVD) which 
> combined with VLC does just about anything you can throw at it. I tend to 
> add lame as well as a few other small programs for users. And then you can 
> add lots of programs in addition to the vast coverage already provided by 
> Mandriva.
> And these days it really is quite easy to install.
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