Mandriva Update

Mandriva is a good idea very badly implemented.

The good idea is resurrecting once one of my favorite (I could not wait for the next release) distributions from bankruptcy.

Thank for the injection of some 3 millions.

Next is is the 3 million well spent.

I do not think so.

It is going to become regimented Russian enterprise (unfortunately we Sri-Lankans including new entrants to the university are getting regimented) without creative inputs.

The idea of using KDE only is horrible to say the least.

Why?

It is Incorporated with Unity Type additions and take up all the GiB of my RAM and cannot even get LibreOffice (another good idea) on in a live session. I have only 1 GiB on my workhorse machine.

Even PCLinuxFullMonty which is a Gorilla of a distribution consumes that amount of RAM on a Live Session. 

In defense of PCLinuxFullMonty even though it is slow to boot up once booted up and running it runs smoothly and fast with many applications running at the same time. It is my workhorse and I have no reservation of recommending it to anybody.

For the last year I had only few momentary crashes (that also due to fault of our Telecoms).

With that scenario putting installation separate was a very good idea otherwise few of the RAM cards of poor uses will be consumed or fully burned.

It might become another Linux distribution Like ALT almost Russian based and no use for the third world countries like ours.

I could not even fire up FireFox and I gave up and cannot make any further comments.

My Live session with Flashdrive created with 4MLinux was not as bad as Live DVD and I could fire up both FireFox and LibreOffice but took a hell of a long time.If you do not have at least 2 GiB of RAM please do not think of using it.

This is not going to be one my favorites for sometimes and a considerable time in future.

Thanks guys and girts making it little over 1.5 GiB otherwise i would have had a heart attack waiting its full download in this Banana Republic.

I will be promoting UNity Linux (not Ubuntu's Desktop) from now onwards, since it's refined concept of bare bone Linux (OpenBox) from which ore useful and custom distributions can be built on.

I am currently downloading Unity's derivative of musicians edition of HUMANity.
Humanity is good with AbiWord and runs smoothly with many useful applications.

I will be with you soon with comment on that and not anymore of Mandriva for sometime.