XPost: alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   	Hi readers and typers.   
      
   	 I just installed a copy of Mageia-5.1-x86_64-DVD.iso to my Dell E6420   
   test machine.  Well it is quite a bit behind the times, its version of   
   Firefox is weeks old LibreWriter is months old and the   
   kernel is also behind time.   
      
   	I had little problem with the installation over the stodgy   
   Fedora 25, next to PCLinux OS 2016.03 and 2016.07(KDE Plasma 5 preview).   
   I had to download a older version of Thunderbird and Kate.  I still have   
   to download a copy of Krita.   
      
   	The biggest problem was that I instructed the boot configuration   
   to set PCLOS 2016.03 as the default but it went ahead and made Mageia   
   5.1 the default.   
   	The Installer looks just like the older Mandriva version and   
   was much easier to use than the Anaconda on Fedora. After using Synaptic   
   for months on the PCLOS the MCC software tools seem rather balky and   
   awkward.   
   	At the end of the Install I did the update which amounted to   
   about 50 megabytes.  As soon as I rebooted I got 31 updates.   
   	The default menu is the classic menu, but when I added in my   
   second default panel it went to the launcher and I had to change   
   that back.  Until I unlocked the widgets I could not add the menu   
   items to the task panels.   
      
   	Some of the widgets are missing especially "Luna" which was on   
   the Mageia 5 iso file.   
      
   	I will be doing further exploration and add to these notes if   
   i find anything of note beyond what I have above.  Including the   
   exact version numbers of all the mentioned programs.   
      
   bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS KDE 2016.03-kernel 4.8.9   
   on my HP Pavilion notebook with 12 gibibytes of RAM and 700+ gibibytes   
   of hard drive and an AMD A10   
   	   
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   bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com   
      
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