Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: Hi, It's been a while since I took a few distro's recent releases for a test drive. I've stuck with Ubuntu not because I love it but because it was a lot easier to get a working desktop with than my favored Fedora. With recent

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Josh Coffman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: Hi, It's been a while since I took a few distro's recent releases for a test drive. I've stuck with Ubuntu not because I love it but because it was a lot

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Donn
The latest Mandriva 2008 Spring has been a joy to install and use. All multimedia capabilities you would expect are easily installed and configured. The nVidia drivers are offered to be loaded at install if applicable. Compiz sets up with a few clicks. Respositories setup easily and program

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Josh Coffman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest Mandriva 2008 Spring has been a joy to install and use. All multimedia capabilities you would expect are easily installed and configured. The nVidia drivers are offered to be loaded at install if applicable. Compiz sets

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Donn
I don't remember actually installing it, but about:plugins in Firefox reports version 9.0 r48 and the Adobe Flash site, youtube, and flash on every site I have visited works fine. The Mandriva Documentation says that Flash can be installed directly from the Flash site via RPM. On Thu, May 22,