Hello All,
I was looking forward towards installing a debian based distro for my client who uses Mandrake 10.1 on a Celeron 2 Ghz. and Intel 845 glva mobo and Intel ethernet card. However to my surprise, neither Ubuntu 5.10 live nor kubuntu 6.06 live+install gave a screen resolution of more than 640 x 480 in spite of the xorg.conf having entries for 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600.
So I installed Mandriva 2006 on his system and it worked out of the box with no driver or extra installation needed. Even the HP 690 printer was auto detected and configured during installation itself.
Those who intend to install this distro need to keep one thing in mind that after the install configuration is done, it will show up as a list containing all the hardware like mouse, printer, video, sound, network etc before it actually does the installation. This is not just a list, it is a configurable list where the devices can be configured manually and it will be needed if you want to make changes just before install. For eg. Ethernet from dhcp to static, boot loader from lilo :P to grub, video system resolution and such tweaks. After installation, It has a very good package manager that can search for repository mirrors and lets you add from a big list of servers in different regions. It keeps the existing cd packages list too.
Regards,
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