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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

Compiz fusion, very smooth on the Eeepc

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

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
 
mandiva_2008.1_beta_2_on_eee_pc.txt · Last modified: 2008/02/25 01:55 by sjaglin
 
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