XPost: alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 05/29/2017 07:27 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >      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.   
      
   	It still works after several rounds 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 as well as) and light" on PCLinuxOS64-2016.03   
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