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    Mandriva 2009.1 (Spring)

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Apollo13, May 3, 2009.

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    Anyone else trying this yet? I've got it running in Virtual Box 2.2.2 at the moment. A few impressions:

    *I kept getting Guru Meditation crashes after installing it - specifically whenever I went to Install or Remove Programs under the start menu. Thought it might have been the experimental 3D acceleration in Virtual Box, but turning that off (or on) didn't solve anything. Turning off Intel Virtualization Technology solved the problem. Not exactly an ideal solution but it worked. Mandriva 2008.1 still worked with Virtual Box 2.2.2 and Virtualization Technology (albeit an old install).

    *The font readibility continues to improve on my LCD. In 2008.1 it was so bad I set it to a fixed-width font to make it bearable; 2009.0 was better but still required font smoothing adjustments to make it accepatable. Here it's adequate right out of the ISO.

    So -1, +1 on first impressions. Not sure if I'll leave it or keep 2008.1 yet. Would've been nice to not get bombarded with Guru Meditation right away but that may be fixed with a Mandriva or Virtual Box update. Planning to try the live CD on my hard drive and see if it'll boot up - 2009.0 and 2008.1 always had major graphics issues when I tried them natively, but you never know when something will get fixed. Post will be amended with the results of that.

    Update: It seemed to work natively off the Live CD until I started unplugging peripherals on my laptop. Then it completely froze except for the mouse pointer. So there are some issues outside of Virtual Box as well. Not impressed with the lack of stability. Maybe they should've waited until May to release it and have it a bit more polished.

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    Another update. Mandriva 2009.1 had frozen earlier with VT enabled to the point I couldn't even terminate VirtualBox in Task Manager, nor with the taskkill utility and the PID. Turns out Kubuntu 9.04 is doing the same thing, despite Ubuntu 9.04 doing just fine with both VT and 3D Acceleration enbaled. Kubuntu wouldn't even install first, though. I'm thinking based on the sample so far that the problem might be in KDE 4. GNOME and KDE 3.5 haven't caused any similar issues for me, nor did Solaris.
     
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