[ILUG] Mandrake 10.0

[Liam Bedford]

Darragh Sherwin wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Downloaded it last week and have being playing with on a Dell Laptop 
> for a few days now.
> Gnome is quiet zippy and most other desktop apps are fast.
> The install is no different from Mandrake 9.2 but it had a bit of 
> trouble trying to get it to connect to HP Printer using HPOJ.
>
I installed it on my 8600.. worked fine. Nice KDE 3.2 (use Plastik ;)).

Few annoying things:
1) it asks you about CD 4
2) it doesn't install the ati/nvidia binary only drivers, but then 
presents them as an option. For
my radeon at least, I used to need them to make it work in 2D, but I 
guess they backported
the 2D support for the 9600.
3) it blasted my ears off when it unmuted the speakers. I booted in 
rescue, turned off the
mixer restore until I had a chance to set it up. As was pointed out to 
me later, a pair
of headphones in the socket might also have fixed it :)

L.