Mandriva 2009 with KDE 4: First Impressions
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 17:41.
Please don’t regard this post as a review of Mandriva 2009 - these are simply my first impressions upon booting up the system. First, I have one word: Wow!
I’m simply amazed at the amount of polish that the Mandriva team has given to KDE 4. It looks better than I thought it could possibly look! I love the theming, and just poking around the desktop, this is the first KDE 4 install of any distro I have done where I didn’t feel like I was going to break my computer simply by clicking the mouse. I need to find some wood to knock on, but I have yet to have Plasma crash on me yet! Besides KDE 4 (or is it?) I’m blown away by the default Font config. My fonts look better on my screen than they ever have, regardless of distro or operating system. Also, I haven’t seen any of the visual inconsistencies I’ve seen with other KDE 4 installs, such as garbage around the system tray icons, etc.
Mandriva 2009
blogbeebe.blogspot: I downloaded and tested the Mandriva One KDE 4.1 live version. The system booted up without any issues. Once up and running I was able to quickly tweak the look-and-feel to something I liked.
Everything Just Works with Mandriva One 2009. The one notable exception is Compiz.
I have downloaded and booted beta versions of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10, and I suppose I could compare and contrast, but really, why bother.
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