Mandriva One 2009 fails to impress
Or does it just simply fail? I have always rated Mandriva’s releases highly, and the past year has been especially good for them as the 2008 and 2008.1 have been awesome releases. Therefore the expectations were high when I was loading the Mandriva One 2009 edition to my IBM Thinkpad.
Unfortunately my short test period with the latest Mandy turned out to be such a turn-off, that it ended up being a very short one. Few times in the past Mandriva (formerly known as Mandrake) has hurt their reputation but slipping out a premature release, and unfortunately the history seems to repeat itself. The live CD worked as expected and followed the similar routines as the previous Mandriva releases, except for the fact that it was running KDE4 now. User is prompted for language, keyboard, and timezone settings before the desktop launches. The installer was fast and easy to follow as used to with Mandriva. First quirk I discovered was the fact that the live CD did not shut down properly, and interestingly I was able to reproduce with two very different kinds of PCs that I have handy (the Thinkpad, and an oldish desktop).
After the installation and a hard reset I had my KDE4 desktop up and running.
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