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March 28, 2004

Mandrake A Stay-Stay

Okay, so I lied. Mandrake is still here.

I tried to install Fedora Core 2 Test 1 last night, but it was a huge failure. I couldn't get the damn installer to boot properly. Since I was having so many issues with just getting the installer to boot, I decided that it would probably be a better idea to stay away from Fedora until it's finally released. Hopefully they fixed that fucking annoying ATI card issue.

So, I re-installed Mandrake 10. This time, however, I went and did some things a bit differently. Instead of installing everything and the kitchen sink, I decided to go the minimal way and just get Gnome and a few other items installed and running. Since the install was completed, I installed XFce as a WM backup in case if Gnome decides to crap out again. Here's a screenshot of XFce up and running. It's a very nice, but minimal, GUI for Linux. It still needs a few things here and there, but it's lightning fast to boot and that's the developers main goal.

XFce running RPMdrake, an RPM update tool.

So, anyhow, I'm still on Mandrake. I like the 2.6.x kernel way to much to even really think about going back to an older distribution with the slower 2.4.x kernel. I debated putting Fedora Core 1 and even Red Hat 9 back on the machine to get me back up and running, but the more that I thought about it ... the more that I realized that I'm ready to move forward and not backwards.

Posted by ed at March 28, 2004 03:35 PM

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