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Disappointments with Corporate Desktop 4 BETA

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If Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 is a fine product which I warmly recommend to anyone — I actually liked it from the beginning — things are different with Mandriva Corporate Desktop 3.0 BETA (look for download links here).

Yes, I know it's BETA (Beta 1, actually), however I'm afraid there are some conceptual errors. Should it have been an Alpha, there would have been some chances for this to change, but it's a Beta, so radical changes are unlikely to happen.

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OK, so we have 5 CDs. Please, don't install from the CDs! Just don't. Try to get the DVD and burn it. I selected everything I could from the installer (3689 MB), and it took 45 minutes to install — but the time is not a problem, the problem is the number of times I had to switch the CDs!

Here, I put it down: 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 1, 2.

39 times! I had to insert a(nother) CD for 39 times in 45 minutes! A real nightmare.

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The boot splash was very "jpegized", I mean the colors or the whole artwork is not well-chosen and it doesn't support the kind of downscaling that was used.

Full Story.

Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4: First impressions

It took a while but after downloading for 24 hours I finally got the image file. Tonight I installed it under VirtualBox and I was impressed. Installing a default setup (with Open SSH, KDE and IceWM) took less than half an hour. I thought “Wow”. After that I was curious how the KDE desktop would turn out in this business edition. It is no surprise I admire the balanced choices that Ubuntu has made. So, what did Mandriva have to offer.

More Here.

Has ubuntu got to you too ?

Without giving ANY reason, ubuntu is just better - one has to ACCEPT such proclamations !

Are they (shuttleworth/ubuntu) paying people to write 'articles' on them ? Don't forget the articles that start with "how to do xyz" on ubuntu, even though you'd do exactly the same thing on other distros ( and some distros provide far easier way to do the same things).

I have tried ubuntu and I find it very backward and retro. Many distros have evolved far beyond what ununtu offers. It is slackware on drugs ( sluggish) with its marketing gear on steroids.

Ubuntu is a religion, nothing else

mvaar wrote:
Are they (shuttleworth/ubuntu) paying people to write 'articles' on them ? Don't forget the articles that start with "how to do xyz" on ubuntu, even though you'd do exactly the same thing on other distros ( and some distros provide far easier way to do the same things).
Ubuntu is a religion, and people believe in it. Has Jesus paid people? NO. Neither did Mark.

All the mentally-handicapped people who are barely able to move a mouse in Windows are considering Ubuntu as the 1st choice in Linux. This should make UNIX veterans feel uneasy in such a company.

That was the short form, w/o all the politically correct crap.

re: Ubuntu users

Ubuntu fanboys, or as I like to call them: "psudo-users" (and yes, I know that's not the real way to spell pseudo).

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