XPost: alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   	Hi Readers and Typers.   
   		Just concluded some work on the test bed: Dell E6420 with 8 Gigabytes   
   of ram.   
   	I was favorably impressed from the startup of the installer.   
   It was so much like Mandriva.  It has the choice of DE screen too   
   which offers KDE's Plasma 5, Gnome (probably 3.x) and Custom.  When   
   I booted up I was offered as well as the KDE product, Ice   
   	A mistake easy to make is that when the DE comes up i thought it was   
   ready to go but no and after a couple of times of trying to do stuff   
   too early I figured it out,   
   	The install went pretty fast.   
   	Updating left me with a system that still worked.   
      
   	I rearranged Plasma 5.x.x pretty close to my ideal formation and   
   tried out some tools.   Gwenview works fine and so does VLC on my .mkv   
   anime files.   
   	I have the same problems with KDE's Plasma 5 as on every other distro   
   using this DE.  Cannot copy the clock/date.  Some extensions to   
   the editor missing still and I am comparing it to the predecessor KDE's   
   mostly excellent Plasma 4.14.18   
   	It is way ahead of Open Mandriva which failed to revive after   
   the first set of updates.   
      
   	Grub2 comes up nicely and has all the OSes on this system:   
   PCLinux OS64 2016.03, PCLinux OS64 2017.05, and lists some that I   
   thought I had scrubbed including Open Mandriva and Debian 8.8.0.   
   Only hassle was that they did not list in order installed but moved   
   the Mageia to the top of the list.  Very pretty menu though.   
      
   	So if you are not wedded tightly to another OS as I am   
   presently, you should try out Mageia but you might want to wait   
   until it is not telling you that Cauldron is the install.   
   	   
   	bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS64-2016.03   
   GNU/Linux 4.11.3-pclos1 #1 SMP Thu May 25   
      
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