Posted by Dave on 4/30/2009, 7:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Mandriva 2009.1 Releases Today!"
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It is getting to where most distros are pretty much the same on top even though they have differences under the hood. I'm installing Mepis 8 again (this time on my tower machine in Virtualbox running in an Antix'M8 host). It seems very much like Mint 6. I used Mandriva 2008 and 2008.1, and was very satisfied; then I upgraded to Mandriva 2009.0 and found a lot broken so changed to Mint. Before too long I'll try Mandriva 2009.1 and see if they've actually fixed things. I've also been unhappy with the *buntus since v7.10, but Mint is very nice and there are some other *buntu spinoffs (crunchbang, moblin, and several others) that look interesting.
Now I'm leaning toward trying to find a very minimal distro to install as host running either Virtualbox or Qemu/KVM, and keeping several alternative distros running as guests. I want to try Sidux again, and Mandriva Cooker, to see if they can be tamed. But Antix or Mepis can be run from the Debian testing repositories, which are rolling release and up to date but not quite as bleeding edge as Sidux or Cooker. But, using virtual machines, reinstallation will be so much quicker when I "over-experiment" and I also can run multiple distros side-by-side to compare them in real time. That's when Mandriva will come back to my machine.
Virtualbox is hard to learn though. So is Qemu/KVM.
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
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