Gave Mageia 3 (alpha 2) KDE 64-bit a live spin...

[tek_heretik]

First impressions...kinda ugly (the system font is horrendous), KDE is the default desktop, you would think they would pretty it up a little, it's late 2012 after all. When I gave Kubuntu 12.04 its first live spin, it 'saw' my 'fakeraid', aka Intel ICH10R 4 HDD Raid 0 (then installed to it afterwards with this workaround... http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...t-to-read-this ), when I checked to see if Mageia was mounting my Raid volume, big fat no, even though Mageia said dmraid, etc, was running, weird, very weird, I thought Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia was supposed to be so hardware friendly, etc, there are lots of distros out there that I don't need to configure device mapper, etc, to 'see' my Raid volume, why would I want the extra headache with that distro? Anyway, on top of that, I did some reading around and found the software packages are a little limited for it too, another let down on top of a repository glitch, something about it wanting to locate the install disk all the time, apparently there is an easy fix for that, remove it from the repository list post installation, the Mageia people couldn't write a work around for that? Newbies usually flock to the most popular distros on Distrowatch, Mageia is currently #2, why exactly?

[claydoh]

Lol, distrowatch and popularity Fans of some distros like to keep DW page hits high quite often. But Mageia is a young distro. As a fork of Mandriva, this might explain some of the attention it gets as it seems to have attracted a large number of Mandriva folks.

[Jonas]

interesting, regardless of DW, I think I've read or seen on youtube that some do claim it is the best KDE distro. I haven't tested it myself though.

Kudos for making KDE the default DE though, I think more distros should.

b.r

Jonas

[tek_heretik]

interesting, regardless of DW, I think I've read or seen on youtube that some do claim it is the best KDE distro. I haven't tested it myself though.

How can it be the best when it is lacking in hardware support and ugly? I guess some people like to fight with a distro to get it fully working and don't mind ugly. Makes no sense to me but I was never a Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia fan, I wonder what the next incarnation will be, one more issue I have with it, shaky foundation, long term support like you get with this distro is always nice.

Edit: As a matter of fact, this one just keeps getting better, still running the same install from April of this year, making little tweaks here and there (mostly cosmetic), I could not even imagine tearing this install down, not for a second.

[NickStone]

K desktop ugly? You do know what an Alpha release is, don't you? Mageia 3 is not due to be released until March 2013.

[tek_heretik]

K desktop ugly? You do know what an Alpha release is, don't you? Mageia 3 is not due to be released until March 2013.

Yes, yes and so? lol

[NickStone]

Here is an interesting set of slides about Mageia

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/si...ageia-v1.0.pdf

[dmeyer]

First impressions...kinda ugly (the system font is horrendous), KDE is the default desktop, you would think they would pretty it up a little, it's late 2012 after all. When I gave Kubuntu 12.04 its first live spin, it 'saw' my 'fakeraid', aka Intel ICH10R 4 HDD Raid 0 (then installed to it afterwards with this workaround... http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...t-to-read-this ), when I checked to see if Mageia was mounting my Raid volume, big fat no, even though Mageia said dmraid, etc, was running, weird, very weird, I thought Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia was supposed to be so hardware friendly, etc, there are lots of distros out there that I don't need to configure device mapper, etc, to 'see' my Raid volume, why would I want the extra headache with that distro? Anyway, on top of that, I did some reading around and found the software packages are a little limited for it too, another let down on top of a repository glitch, something about it wanting to locate the install disk all the time, apparently there is an easy fix for that, remove it from the repository list post installation, the Mageia people couldn't write a work around for that? Newbies usually flock to the most popular distros on Distrowatch, Mageia is currently #2, why exactly?

Nobody does pretty KDE like ROSA. Go give it a look. Also has some great technology like KLook in it.

[GreyGeek]

ROSA has an interesting desktop, which mimics my iPad 4th Gen. One can drag an icon onto another icon and create a group box, which one can rename. One can drag other desktop icons into that box. The only downside to that approach is that you need to bring the desktop up to run another app, unless you run only one app at a time. Having "Show the Desktop" setting in the panel helps.
Russians are excellent coders, and ROSA shows it.