Upgrading from 2005 Limited Edition
I'm currently running Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition and have never had any problems whatsoever out of it, but I figured I would ask you guys a few questions because I'm thinking of upgrading to 2006. I would have searched mandriva.com but I'm at my parents' house for Thanksgiving and I'm stuck on their 28k dial up, and the mandriva.com page is a little on the graphical side, plus it's rather late and I need to get to bed. Anyway, here's my questions:
- What are the advantages to upgrading (i.e. more bundled software, newer versions of software, more stable, etc)
- What does the official (paid for) version have that the free version doesn't have? (from what I've seen it's just documentation and tech support)
- How easy is it on system resources? My desktop is the linux box and it has 256 MB of DDR SDRAM, a 32 MB on board video card and an 850 Mhz AMD Duron processor. Would it have a harder time running it than it has with 2005 LE?
- How has Samba changed because accessing Windows shares is crucial to me (my laptop and friends all have Windows).
- Overall for those of you who have used 2005 LE and 2006, was it worth the upgrade?
Last edited by gerowen; 11-27-2005 at 03:17 AM.
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