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Mandriva 2009.1 (Spring) 64 Bit
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Hi Folks,
First off I am a Mandriva fanatic I have "had a go" with others. In fact I started off with SuSE until they sold their shirts to Microsoft.
So anyway I here to entice you in to the world of Mandriva. I have the latest & greatest 2009.1 installed (64 bit) version running on the new ext4 file system - which works great no issues. I install both Gnome & KDE which allows me to swap around as my fancy takes.
I am a Mandriva Club member which gives me access to the Power Pack edition. No too much different from the One edition. It mainly allows me to contribute towards maintaining my fav distro.
So I fully recommend that you give it a try - not a brown wallpaper in sight...:laugh:
Jim
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TNX
da kid
I've never experienced anything like that even when testing cooker.
First place to look for problems with xorg is in /var/log/xorg.0.log.old after x has restarted.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated
TNX
When sectors on a disk go bad the disk can fail. You then have two options :
Buy a new hard drive and backup using a live cd onto the new disk you bought (Create the layout on the new disk once with one program, format the partitions and then stick with the layout forever more)
Or you can use :
http://www.dposoft.net/#b_hddhid
to repair the bad sectors on the disk. It costs money but it is worth it.
I'm really sorry but pointing the finger at Mandriva Linux for a problem you have with some faulty hardware you bought isn't going to fly; now is it?
Ftw : When you install Mandriva to your hdd it makes a backup of the mbr in it's boot directory.
Also, it still amazes me that :
A : People still try to install operating systems to computers without backing up their mbr first.
B: That Linux distributions don't provide an easy to use interface for mbr backup and restore on their installation media.
TNX