Distro Review: Mandriva One 2009
I've started distro hopping again on my main machine (Dell M1330 laptop) to keep me on my toes and my first stop on the tour was Mandriva One 2009. I had great things to say about the 2008 release and I was eager to see how the new version would measure up.
The install went smoothly and the installer is intuitive enough to use but every time you think you've finished another dialog pops up. Once you reboot the machine you get more screens asking you to set up your new user account, answer a survey, register the product, think about buying the paid version and so on. I understand the company needs user feedback and would like you to graduate to a paid version of the product, that's all perfectly normal but even with the option to skip these pages it feels a bit like badgering to me.
I noticed upon booting the new install that the screen resolution was set wrong for my laptops display, even though it was using the proper Nvidia driver. The 13.3 inch screen should run at 1280x800 but it seemed to be running at 1024x768. After selecting 1280x800 from a dialog in the Control Centre and rebooting the X server i had the right resolution but now the main KDE task bar didn't fit the screen width. This puzzled me a bit.
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