Xerithane's Journal: Mandrake 9.2 Upgrade

Mandrake really did a great job making it "User Friendly" -- and I think this is probably the best introduction distro to date. The upsetting part was rebooting and being met with a very fucked up KDE desktop. Somehow, the upgrade decided it wanted to mess my entire desktop up. Woo.

So, I fixed that pretty quickly and am running Mozilla 1.4. The font support in Mozilla 1.4 (I'm assuming is using GTK2) is great, and nice and anti-aliased. It looks very clean, and so far all my other "custom" builds are working flawlessly. I'm running Gimp-unstable, and that was a bit of a pain in the ass running under Mandrake 9.1.

So, if you are a Mandrake user you should definitely go ahead and upgrade.

This the distro mentioned the other day?

[(H)elix1]

I'm a couple days away from getting a new laptop - the 'old' one was a IBM T40p, which was a bit surely with the ATI video chipset (64MB ATI Mobility FIRE GL 9000) on the Linux side. I suspect the new one will have the 32MB ATI chipset that is a bit more common - well worth the trade up for an extra half gig of ram - so no heartaches there.

Anyhow, sounds like some of the driver support might be in there. Might be able to give that a whirl in a day or two as IS will want the old one back. (grin)

toga toga toga!

[JVert]

less linux more beer.