Linux OS and Everything Else

Finally I think I have found a working Linux Distro for my board the MSI K9NGM3. I will comment that I have not tried the latest Ubuntu on it , so that may also work but - tonight I downloaded and burned Mandriva One 2008. I am in the Live CD right now and my video display is perfect, my network/internet connection was found, and I just checked my control panel for sound through the Sound Test and I had sound - I did have two minor glitches YouTube has no sound in Firefox - common for some reason right now on many Linux Distros that  I boot up - and I tried playing a Shoutcast stream and Kaffeine attempted to play it and totally crashed. Other than that the KDE 3.5 is totally beautiful and my plans are to actually install this on my hard drive in the next couple of days. I used to use Mandrake quite some time ago but as it progressed into Mandriva I had some issues with it - but it seems like it might be ok now so maybe I’ll give it a spin.

Last night I downloaded Mandriva One spring 2007 Gnome and KDE versions. First of all, they both took way too long to download compared to other distro’s of the same size, about 700MB, I normally can get that in an hour or two, this went way longer, I finally went to bed. So, next day, (today), I burn my iso files so I can try Mandriva with Metisse Desktop, No - the will not boot on my old pc’s at all, finally my newest pc does load the Gnome one. I go to YouTube (one of my basic tests) Nope - can’t even install a plug in in Firefox - says it is unrecognized - so I go to my Anixas website to see if the Javascript feed works, Nope - same thing it has some kind of unknown plug in error and my only option is to click Finish. Sucks! To me these are basic features that should work for pc’s (at this point in history). I don’t care about license issues and what not all I know is javascript has to work and so does flash if you want to have a decent internet experience. I am not even whining about Windows Media files, Real Player files, or others. I didn’t even test these because if the basics don’t work who cares about the rest. Mandriva One You Suck a waste of a download and two perfectly good cdr’s - As for Puppy Linux I had some issues with a couple of the recent releases but I think those have been resolved. One of the releases told me to launch Xorgwizard , this worked. I would be nice if they all would tell you this , in case you don’t know about it. So , Puppy Rocks Mandriva Sucks.