Mandrake 9.0

[refractor]

[sponge]

[damian]

[sponge]

They're similar enough for comparison's sake. My point was, it's a LOT simpler than everyone thinks.

[refractor]

Just to say that RH9 supported my crappy Promise RAID controller much better than Mandrake 9.1 did, so I'm running RH9 now. RH9 did, however, screw up the bootloader config so I had to go in from the boot floppy and fix it.

[damian]

What are your impressions of 9? Is it better/worse than MD9.1 in any way (other than the RAID controller and bootloader) or are they too similar to tell?

And does 9 still not ship with any MP3 decoder?

[refractor]

To be honest, I've really not used RH9 enough to form much of an opinion yet (I'm using it at work via ssh, so I've not even booted a GUI yet).

Their firewall configuration wasn't exactly "helpful" - I hoped it ran shorewall but apparently not. Lokkit doesn't impress me very much. Means I'll have to send effort shorewalling it.

Their user configuration was missing totally. Mandrake has a nice setup thing on install that you can use to configure users. RH didn't (or I missed it).

My RH9 install seems to have xmms on there. A quick inspection doesn't show up things like mpg123 or freeamp, but I probably didn't actually install them (it's supposedly a server rather than a "desktop machine"). I'd check the CDs, except the machine is at my flat.

Incidentally, I tried out Xine again last week on Mandrake 9.1 and was very impressed (again) It managed to play some files that the wretched media player 9 struggled with. (I would use MPlayer but their attitude problem makes me not want to go near it).

I'll let you know more once I've messed around with the X stuff, but bear in mind that I didn't play with Mandrake much because its lack of support for my RAID was a show-stopper for me. (MDK9.1 was a test install on my system anyway, so a new install of RH 9 was easier than rebuilding the kernel and hacking about).

(I bracket too much).

(Cheers,

(Refractor))

[damian]

[whiteboi]

[Guest]

you have a mac, whiteboy?

[Jadam]

[gamefreaks]

[MZGuy]

Gamefreaks, I agree with you that windows is better for games and also overall a more convenient OS.

The monitor problem was maybe because you didn't select your real monitor in the installation? You can also manually select your update frequencies of your monitor there if it isn't listed. You can also try Mandrake Control center and see if you can config. your monitor from there. Otherwise you can always edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (I believe) manually
Mandrake doesn't for some reason include the official NVIDIA accelerated graphics drivers, so you have to install them from NVIDIA's site separately if you want 3D acceleration.

Heh, you probably won't go back to Linux, but I just felt like posting

[damian]

Yes, the linux NVIDIA driver should help, considering the Ti4200 is a relatively new card and thus it's not yet suppored much by anyone except NVIDIA.

As for me, UT2003 works like a charm. A bit slower than windows... maybe it's because the graphics card's overclocked, I'll have to see.

The stock speeds of my card are below NVIDIA spec... so unfair. I guess that's what happens when you get a no-brand Geforce 2.

[gamefreaks]

Yeah, it was the moniter that really did it for me. I searched the Mandrake control center from top to bottom (several times!) and while I could change the resolution, there was nothing to allow me to change the refresh rate. But im a complete Linux n00b so I wouldn't know much about editing stuff manually.

But all the same, I'll keep it installed and will be sorting out problems as I learn how to configure it better.

Im just saying that at the moment, its on my system for the sake of interest rather than neccesity.