![]() Why the heck it takes a whole 3-4 seconds to authenticate my password in the command line (I don’t use any *DM), when loging in either as eugenia or as root? Mandrake Cooker also did the same. Something that I find annoying with this distribution is that authenticating is slow. You can always remove these startup entries from the Mandrake Control Center. Loading the OS takes a while, because Mandrake is loading by default a number of things (that I don’t necessarily need). Linux Mandrake 9 features a graphical LILO screen and it had successfully placed as default an SMP kernel for my dual Celeron 533 Mhz. One thing I like in the Mandrake installer is that you can configure your card to support 3D (as long there is DRI support for it). The rest of the installation went well though, Mandrake successfully found and supported all my hardware (except later I found out that my 2-years old digital camera is not supported). The update never took place because the operation timed out about 5 minutes later. I said “yes” and it tried to contact some FTP site to download the updates. I have talked about it here.Īt the end of the installation, the Installer would ask me if I want to download some available patches. Apparently, XFS can boot a Linux only the bootmanager is installed on the MBR, some OSNews readers replied.)īut this is just a small detail, as I find the whole partitioning application terrible GUI-wise. ( UPDATE: Please note that I needed to put LILO on hdc4 and not on MBR, as I don’t want my BeOS bootman bootmanger to get overwritten by LILO. Even if they were there, the fact that they went completely unnoticed, should say something to their UI designer. MandrakeSoft replied that there should have been some warning messages, but I saw none. While I know that an XFS (root) / partition would require a /boot in ext2/3, most people don’t know this. The second problem was that the installation wouldn’t tell me that the XFS option does not support booting. The point is that the driver does something *unexpected* for the user, and from the usability point of view, is just not right.) This was not the point of my paragraph about the mice. I very well know about how to allow wheel operations on my mice, back in the day I used to do it by directly editing my XF86Config file. ( UPDATE: Please don’t send me emails that this can be tweaked afterwards. ![]() I tried with three of my PS/2 mice I had around: 1 Logitech Cordless mouseman optical, a no-name optical and a normal Keytronic. I don’t see the point of providing such a mouse panel in the installation if Mandrake and Red Hat (yes, Red Hat has the same problem in their Gnome2 admin mouse panel, I tried 3 different mice, all have the same effect) and all the other distros are not able to fix the damned re-initialization code of the mice on the fly. Clicking in the right option, it would make my mouse jumping like crazy all over the screen making the installation impossible to continue. But it did not pick up the wheel mouse option, because all my mice have a wheel. When the installation started it asked me what mouse I have, and it had automatically picked up the PS/2 model. the terribly un-intuitive partitioning tool, dated layout and UI), I had three main problems. Except that the actual UI in some of the installation modules is not great (e.g. It is pretty easy to install Mandrake, but I encountered problems (I used the expert mode, as Mandrake is installed on a PC with 8 more operating systems and I needed flexibility). Installation is very similar to what it used to be, not much has changed since the last time I tried version 8.0 last year and 9.0-Cooker last summer. NOTE: MandrakeSoft had access to this article before publication (something that I do not normally do, but this time was at least the… moral thing to do) and they have confirmed or reproduced several of the bugs I am mentioning here. ![]() How does this version compares to the also recent SuSE and Red Hat releases? MandrakeSoft sent us the Download Edition over for a review and here is what we think about it. ![]() MandrakeSoft released Linux Mandrake 9.0 about three weeks ago. ![]()
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