Pro's and Con's of Man 10 ????

evodawg · 11-05-2009, 10:04 PM

Thinking of installing 10 but would like to hear from all of you that have and what you think so far? Like also to hear about the 64 bit version. I have used the 32 bit and never converted yet. Is most 64 bit software available now?

Thanks in advance
Rich

ernie · 11-06-2009, 05:31 AM

I am using MDV 2010.0 x86_64 here, and all works well here. I have not noticed any missing packages in the MDV repositories. I found that I get better results with the 64 bit beta version of the adobe flash player from adobe-labs, although finding it takes a bit of hunting. I use the sun-java packages from the MDV repositories with good results. All in all, 2010.0 looks fairly solid so far.

HTH,

wheel · 11-09-2009, 07:58 PM

I've upgraded a couple of machines now and both times it's been a bit bumpy. I've had to download and reboot a couple of times to get it actually running - kinda like a windows upgrade

. But all in all, relatively painless. In terms of differences, pretty much like any other mandriva upgrade I've done. Mostly like it was before, some changes to how pretty the login and themes are but otherwise business as usual. Certainly on my business machines it hasn't made any noticeable difference.

In short, for most of it's probably an upgrade to stay current rather than for some earth shattering change.

GlennsPref · 11-09-2009, 09:51 PM

Some of the benefits of 2010.0 is the ext4 filesystem,

I've heard it's quite quick.

But you have to format to get it in use.

So an upgrade will miss it, and the speed benefits.

Regards Glenn

wheel · 11-10-2009, 06:14 AM

OK, now I'm seeing two possible big reasons for MDV 2010. The ext4 filesystem (faster), and the new network monitoring (supposed to be way better than previous). On my webserver faster is always better. And it would be really nice to have a better tool to moniter the network.

Questions:
1) is it worth a reformat of a server to go to ext4? Will speed improvements be noticeable?
2) the new network monitoring program is supposed to be great - but mine says : "Network accounting is not enabled for this interface. Please enable it in Mandriva network center...". I'm not seeing where to enable it in the network center - any idea what I might be missing?

~sHyLoCk~ · 11-10-2009, 07:03 AM

My GOD those are some beautiful , breathtaking artworks. Great work for 2010. Heard there was a wallpaper contest in the forums and Anne picked the winners?

ernie · 11-10-2009, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by wheel

2) the new network monitoring program is supposed to be great - but mine says : "Network accounting is not enabled for this interface. Please enable it in Mandriva network center...". I'm not seeing where to enable it in the network center - any idea what I might be missing?

Click the Network management icon in the system tray to open the Network Center (your root password will be requested).

In the Network Center, click the small right-arrow to the upper-left of the Status icon (Green circle for a connected interface) for the Network Interface that needs Accounting enabled (Each Network Interface represents a Network Controller device installed on the system, so these are usually labeled: eth0, eth1, wlan0, wlan1, etc.) to expose the available options.

Click the Configure button.

Scroll to the bottom of the window and make sure the Enable Traffic Accounting item is check-marked.

Click the OK button (bottom-right) to close the configuration window.

Click the Quit button (bottom-right) to close the Network Center window.

Unless I am incorrect, this should enable Network Accounting for that interface.

HTH

wheel · 11-10-2009, 10:46 AM

Ernie, thank you - that did it.

Not surprisingly, I wasn't scrolling down (in other words, problem was due to my stupidity). Sometimes it just takes a second set of eyes!

GlennsPref · 11-11-2009, 05:11 PM

Hi, another thing worth mentioning is kernel 2.6.31.x

and better support for 3g-wireless broadband setup.

Much better support.

Regards Glenn.

damgar · 11-11-2009, 08:39 PM

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Questions:
1) is it worth a reformat of a server to go to ext4? Will speed improvements be noticeable?

FSArchiver can be used to image a disk/partition and restore it to a different file system.

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Option -F was used to convert a filesystem in old version. For instance, it allows to restore a filesystem which was ext2 when it was saved as reiserfs on the new partition. Now, you have to specify option mkfs=xxx with the destination partition. Here is how to restore the first filesystem from an archive to /dev/sda1 and to convert it to reiserfs in the same time:

fsarchiver restfs /mnt/backup/gentoo-rootfs.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sda1,mkfs=reiserfs

Taken from http://www.fsarchiver.org/QuickStart
It supports ext4.

Cage47 · 12-03-2009, 08:44 PM

Almost threw me there. I thought you were refering to Mandrake 10. Oh the memories.

the_penguinator · 01-01-2010, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by evodawg

Thinking of installing 10 but would like to hear from all of you that have and what you think so far?

I did an update from 2008.1 to 2010 on an IBM R51 laptop yesterday. So far things are working very well. I have to say that I don't really like KDE4. I've seen it on a laptop running Slack13 and didn't like it there either. This machine has 2gb of ram and KDE4 really seems to put the gooey in the GUI. I've switched to using IceWM and this machine now seems again to be as quick as when it ran KDE3.5/Mdv2008.1

my $0.02CDN