Ahh, good for you Lucky Joestar,

Just recently I came across a question, and recommended synaptiks (is this the same as what you mentioned, ? typo?)

But I don't have a laptop/touch-pad. It was a question about input controllers.

I'm sticking with Mandriva.

But like all distros I have tried, see what comes.

Regards Glenn

edit.
By the way, I have very little interest in "changing horses in mid stream". as an oss advocator on 2002 onwards, I had no idea what I was getting into.

I tried a RH 5.2 and got it installed (blind faith prevailed) but knew not how to invoke the gui, or what question to ask. As far as I knew, this was leet teritory and I just found out why.

So comming from winMe,and presented with a command line, I was stopped dead in my tracks. Then knoppix 3.x come out and I tried it, great, found it was based on debian and dl'd and installed Debian 3.1.

Still no joy, the pervasive gui did not magically (lol) appear.

Then I read about Mandrake 9.2 (I think it was).

But as usuall the doc was behind the releases of OSS, so I dl'd and installed Mandrak 10.0. Been with them ever since.

I've said before that Mandriva is the most hackable distro, I mean "configurable" distro I have come across. I've also installed fedora-core, suse, oh, and lfs, but just the one time (a long time ago, I didn't know what I was doing, just following directions/tutes)

I'm really happy with Mandriva, I'm excited about the new rpm and html procedures. Sometimes I think less is more as far as packages and architectures, (e.g. i586, x86_64) although choice is just as important.

My 2 cents, end edit.

This doesn't sound so good to me!

It would apply to new hardware users.

And yes, that would be bad but,..

Generally there is a patch available, not too long after someone mentions it (fme(from my experience) about 2 weeks).

My next complaints/admissions will be the X1195 (LexMark) printer/scanner/ etc.

Here we go again...
Just read this:

http://www.itworld.com/it-management...sing-its-doors

I know it's an old thread, but it's related.

cheers

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I feel, it is a shame that one part of a group can devestate the rest of the group.

I think, "that's bussiness".

Mandrake and Mandriva (and now Mageia) have been my guiding light through my education of GNU/Linux.

I still recommend Mandriva to my friends and relatives, and anybody who seems interested (or not interested in some cases(, windows users)).

See what happens....

regards Glenn

I hate to see Mandriva go down as it seems to be going. Since I started back using it around 1998, it has been an install and forget about it distro, besides regular updates. I still have it on my netbook but up to 2010.2. I'm not going to go any further with it but may switch to Mageia 2 when it's final.

I also have Mageia 1 and SalixOS on my desktop system now.

Just some thoughts!