====== Mandriva 2008.1 beta 2 ======

Following the How-to about Mandriva 2008 on an external hard drive, I set up my favorite distro on the internal hard drive using the Mandriva 2008.1 "one" cd.

===== I configured the install as follow : =====


  * / on the hard drive.
  * /home mounted on a 4GB sd-card


/usr/src/ and /share/bin/ on the sd-card with symbolic links leading to them.

I chose xfce 4.4 as a window manager with compiz set-up.

The result is amazing, very reactive set-up with hardly any lag when starting applications thanks to packages like Thunar, Mousepad, and Terminal.


===== How big is small? =====


  * Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

  * /dev/sda1             3.3G  1.9G  1.5G  57% /

  * /dev/sdb1             3.4G  1.3G  2.1G  38% /home


===== The Shots =====

==== Simple desktop with conky, a wonderful system monitor ====


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==== Compiz fusion, very smooth on the Eeepc ====


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==== An example of compiz's pluggin : expo (mouse up left) ====


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===== Conlusion so far... =====

With Mandriva 2008.1 being only at a beta stage, it is a very good solution for the Eee pc. Not only is it a very good way to promote linux around the community, I have used it for fairly demanding tasks in office work using multiple spreadsheet table as well as Photo manipulation using Gimp and a usb scanner (xsane), all worked very well with no noticeable lag in the system.

The versions :

  
  * Kernel : 2.6.24.2-laptop-4mdv

  * OpenOffice 2.4

  * GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.4.4

  * Firefox 2.0.0.12

  * Conky 1.4.9

  * Xfce 4.4