After the success of Ubuntu 8.04 on my Asus EEE PC it was brought to my attention by Klopus there are interesting happenings going on over at Mandriva. I was directed to a thread on the EEE PC User Forum discussing Mandriva on the EEE PC. After reading through the thread I was convinced I would give Mandriva a try. A swift download/burn/format/install later Mandriva was installed on my EEE PC.

The install was straight forward. The disk partitioning software Mandriva uses is a bit awkward to figure out. In advance mode there was a listing of over twenty different file systems to chose from – I did not see EXT2 on this list. This was my first disappointment as “journaling” file systems have a high read/write not good for the SSD in the EEE PC. Therefore, EXT2 would have been my first file system choice to install. However, as it was not an option I ended up choosing EXT3. The partition manager also enjoyed harassing me about not having a swap file – it took me an additional few clicks to assure the partition manager I was aware of said issue.

Out of the box all the software/hardware were supported as discussed in the forum. I greatly enjoyed the WPA2 LEAP support out of the box (compared to Xandros).

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