Mandriva…Not just for Classmates
As I’ve been poking around with Mandriva Linux for the last week or so (preparing to install it on a Classmate and researching prior to my interview with François Bancilhon), I’ve been impressed with it’s apparent ease of use, quick installs, and out-of-the-box feature set. When a student came to me at the beginning of the week with an unlicensed, expiring Vista installation and asked me what to do, I tossed him an Ubuntu CD and sent him on his way. Unfortunately, Ubuntu didn’t pick up his Atheros wireless chipset and his eyes glazed over when I started talking about NDISwrapper. Since he had nothing to lose except a bit of classtime with me, I burned him a copy of Mandriva 2008. Half an hour later, he was up and running, the wireless functional without any intervention.
Intrigued, I tossed it on one of my kid’s computer so that he could play with the eye candy of Compiz Fusion, also functional out of the box. He preferred it to the Fedora 7 installation he had been using and has been tinkering with Compiz plugins happily. Sweet.
Another student needed a computer at home, so I tossed it onto an old PIII I had in my office, disabled Compiz, and sent her home half an hour later with a fully-functional PC.
I think you see the pattern here.
Also: Installing Mandriva on a Classmate
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