Back to 2009.1

[gerard4143]

Back to 2009.1

I've dumped Mandy 2010...maybe in a few months when its a little more stable

[minthaka]

I did it too. It was my second disappointment with Mandriva. Its nice, but as soon as I've installed it i saw it will be no big deal: OpenOffice just didn't want to open documents (I red they've experimented with some stupid subbranch of it), I could not download packages with urpmi (but normally with FileZilla), the ever crashing KDE...which works like charm on Kubuntu. It's a pity for such a promising distribution. Another failure or two, and they will loose all of their users! I've dropped it and moved to UbuntuStudio Karmic Koala. It's simply great! I've added KDE 4.3.2 desktop to the basic install and now I have two fantastic and stable desktops. And I didn't tell you anything about Ubuntu's rt-kernel!

[gerard4143]

I did it too. It was my second disappointment with Mandriva. Its nice, but as soon as I've installed it i saw it will be no big deal: OpenOffice just didn't want to open documents (I red they've experimented with some stupid subbranch of it), I could not download packages with urpmi (but normally with FileZilla), the ever crashing KDE...which works like charm on Kubuntu. It's a pity for such a promising distribution. Another failure or two, and they will loose all of their users! I've dropped it and moved to UbuntuStudio Karmic Koala. It's simply great! I've added KDE 4.3.2 desktop to the basic install and now I have two fantastic and stable desktops. And I didn't tell you anything about Ubuntu's rt-kernel!

Don't get my posting wrong. I still run Mandriva, Mandriva 2009.1 right now and I'll probably install 2010 when they get some of the bugs worked out....because I always found Mandriva to be a comfortable fit...

[djap]

I had exactly the opposite experience.

With 2009.1 I had lots of random crashes and it constantly kept losing my mouse when ever I attached/unplugged something to the USB or captured from firewire camera. Even replugin didn't bring it back not to mention the problems I had with the USB-RS232 adapter. The whole system went crazy after few minutes pushing huge ammount of error messages. There was a following message in logs "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)" which I think was somehow related to it. There was also some other problems like randomly losing sound and crashing when ever I tried to run some games that use OpenGL.

Now I have been running 2010 since its release without a glitch. Also 2009.0 worked fine but 2009.1 was a total disappointment for me.

[gerard4143]

Well I'm back with Mandriva 2010/Gnome and most if not all the problems are worked out...Yeah Mandriva, Thank-you for all the work..