Very interesting; thanks much for the info. I would not have figured this
distro, but that's mea culpa because I know zip about it and have no
experience with it. (experience has been exclusively Red Hat EL, Fedora and
Ubuntu, thus fah, as we say up here.)
Also Gnome exclusively, but more than willing to try out KDE.
Interesting also about the graphics drivers included, although games are not
a priority, either for me personally or some of the organizations thinking
about going open sauce here. (the more the merrier!)
Thanks also for that link, Bill. Will do due diligence and all that happy
hoss pucky ASAP.
Old Farmer Dave
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400,
David Hardy wrote:
Serious question: favorite new Linux distro? Which will do media
and amaze and stun the otherwise Winders crowd at various sites of
various sizes? Anything from desktop to enterprise level.
Mandriva 2008.1 Spring PowerPack. Includes non-free (AIS AIB) bits
such as ATI NVidia drivers, Cedega, and Fluendo multimedia codecs.
Provides KDE *and* Gnome *and* XFCE (as well as IceWM, Fluxbox and
several other WMs), so if you prefer one DE over the others, chances
are that it's in there. While Mandr{ake,iva}'s default orientation has
always been KDE, unlike some other distros I've seen they do not IMHO
give short shrift to the other DEs in their implementations of them.
The 2008.1 Free edition contains only free (AISB) packages on the
install media, so no proprietary drivers out of the box, but the
non-free (AIS, not AIB) bits can be easily added post-install from the
distro's official non-free repositories. A good single-page rundown
on all of the 2008.1 versions, the repos, and on what distinguishes
Mandriva from most other distros is the 2008.1 Reviewers Guide:
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Reviewers_Guide
The various Mandriva One 2008.1 live CDs - of which there are several,
because each contains one DE and a subset of the supported languages
available - also provide the ATI NVidia proprietary drivers, as well
as OOo, Firefox, the GIMP, Java and Flash plugins, and a selection of
apps that is appropriate for that DE (i.e. Kontact on the KDE ones, but
Evolution Pidgin on the Gnome ones). The main shortcoming of the One
CDs, IMHO, is an almost complete lack of games in the live environment;
this may or may not matter to you, depending on your audience(s).
Just my $0.02USD ...
--
Bill Mullen
RLU #270075
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