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Germ
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2025 10:36 pm Post subject:

jada wrote:

Thank's Germ! I will wait for this fix! Maybe if you don't mind, leave a note if the patch is out Smile

Will do.

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I don't know why it is, but I never got a mdk running out of the box Confused

It's really impossible to test a distro for all possible hardware combinations. Myself, I've had better luck with Mandrake/Mandriva than any other. Maybe it's because I tend to be conservative with my hardware choices.

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masinick
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2025 1:24 am Post subject: Mandrake/Mandriva have long been easy to instal l& use

Germ wrote:

Except for a recent version of Mandriva One from about six to nine months ago, I have generally had pretty good success with both Mandrake and Mandriva. My very first version of Mandrake was either 6.1 or 6.5, depending on what the naming convention was back then.

My first heavy use of Mandrake was with Version 8.0, which I thought was easily the best distribution at that time. The other distro I really liked back then was a now deceased one, Caldera Open Linux - their eDesktop 2.4 really set the standard for ease of installation back in that day, actually surpassing Mandrake in ease of installation, but it did not come with as much good software as Mandrake (which used to duke it out with SUSE for most application packages included in a distro (unless you take into account PLAIN Debian, which has always had more applications and software than anyone other than the BSD projects, which beat everyone because they include the Linux software AND the BSD software!

Speaking of which, be sure to try out PC-BSD 1.2 if you want a BSD with a SOLID desktop. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD bring ease of installation and upgrade to the FreeBSD world and they both do it well. PC-BSD seems to be winning in that. The latest release is reasonably current and runs a very nice KDE setup.

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masinick
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2025 2:00 am Post subject: Do you have the most current urpmi URLs for the Cooker?

Germ wrote:

Unless you are a Club member you won't be able to get ISOs for at least a couple of weeks. You can, however, do a FTP install.

I am more interested in the Cooker than I am in the current release. Cooker has changed though over the months in terms of directory layout.

Do you have a set of urpmi commands that provide the various cooker repositories for the current Cooker? I have some, but they are old and no longer valid. Have not had much time to chase down the current commands or config file lines that would point my Mandriva updates to the Cooker. Do you?

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