From: dimke.fax@uni.de   
      
   Bit Twister wrote:   
      
   > [...]   
      
   > Can not help on Mandriva. I gave it up and went with Mageia.   
      
   Hi!   
      
   The reason behind opening a new discussion is, that I also tried newer   
   versions of Mandriva, except Open Mandriva. I didn't check if this one   
   works fine now, but Mageia which I use on some machines has flaws   
   which make it hard to work with. For instance, on notebooks the screen   
   resolution in text mode (CTRL-ALT-F1..6) is set to max, regardless what   
   has been set in grub. Maybe this is being set within initrd.   
      
   After all, for working I still use Mandriva 2009.1 with security   
   patches overall (kernel, shell, ...) to work safely, but I can see the   
   limits of such an outdated system.   
      
   So, I'm looking around which OS could be my next one, and also, which   
   surface fits my needs. KDE4 and above has tons of whistles and bells   
   which makes every box slow, and Gnome is meanwhile (sorry for writing)   
   even more annoying than Windows.   
   So, finally I found to Xfce which can be configured in the way that it   
   behaves and feels like KDE3.5 or Gnome 2.   
      
   I found a "PC-Welt"-dvd from year 2011 which provides some favourite   
   distros like Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu to try out without   
   installing and looking around.   
      
   Well, though 2011 is not decades ago, Ubuntu ("Xubuntu") for instance,   
   could not be updated any more. There was no access to any update repo.   
   For experiments, I had to download the whole iso for the current   
   version, and so I wonder if this is the case with systems like (Open)   
   Mandriva, Mageia etc, too?   
      
   What I'm looking for is a "long term" OS which does not need to be   
   installed every year, but rather can be updated as long as possible to   
   keep it safe, and have a box which you can work with.   
      
   Is this the case with Mageia? Mandriva?   
   Can Xfce be selected as desktop?   
   Any other distro recommended?   
      
   Any hints and opinions highly appreciated!   
      
   Thanks, best regards,   
      
   Markus   
      
      
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