Mageia 2 Part 4

Well, after fiddling around with SCIM and other things... I got it to work in LibreOffice... Which I thought was good enough, since it's better to copy/paste than not have it at all.

But sometime after syncing my Firefox and attempting to install Adblock Plus, Firefox closed and segmentation faulted. (-_-;;)

Mageia 3 alpha 1 is out, so it should probably be a couple months or so before the final release.

I had a feeling I was a bit premature with Mageia, but at least I know Mageia is more than likely viable. I'm gonna wait for 3 and do what I did here and see what happens.

For now, I'm downloading Sabayon 9, since it's the next similar thing (kernel 3.x and GNOME 3.x) that I can easily find.

Mageia 2 Part 3

Got the dual-screen to work... I switched from the FGLRX HD 6200-6400 driver to the HD 6400+ driver (my card's an AMD Radeon HD 6770), which actually didn't do anything. After getting all the updates and restarting, FGLRX no longer worked (for whatever reason), so it switched to ati-radeon... Which allowed for my dual-scren to work. (:D)

My media keys control Rhythmbox like it used to in openSUSE 11.3, so that's also another plus. Though, for some reason, some of the songs get cut off early and it goes to the next one... not sure exactly sure what the problem might be, but it could become a problem... It seems to only be when I use the updater... (>_>)

CPU fan went back up... so something in 3.3.8 is causing it to kick it to 100%. luckily, after shutting my parent's bedroom door, it's inaudible from the pillows on the bed, so it's the least of my worries.

To edit fstab, I had to do it the copy/edit/overwrite way... I was unable to log into root or use gedit via su.

Well, it seems like the connection is being closed for certain songs... so it's erring out for whatever reason... if anything, I'll have to make a copy of my music somewhere and edit the XML preferences to reflect that.

I was forced to install GRUB 1, and I re-installed LM11 to get GRUB 2, but it just messed up Mageia... But! Windows is detected, and that's really all I was after... If I remember, there's a way to chain-load GRUB 1 and 2, I just don't remember the order... and I'm not sure how to do it.

I didn't find the scanner program, even though it's technically installed, and if it's like 12.2 RC1, I'm gonna have to use LM... And with the above problem, I'm probably gonna have to use it live (I'm pretty sure that SANE is usable on the live CD).

VLC was installable (after selecting the non-free repository), and it works just fine. Nothing really more to say there.

Oh! I realized that I haven't installed SCIM. I'll do that now XD

Hmm... having problems with SCIM.. I think I'll end it here for now

Mageia 2 Part 2

Well, from the live version, it seems to be pretty good... I think it's what openSUSE 12.x was supposed to be... before something went horribly wrong.

I couldn't get dual-monitors to work... but perhaps installing it might work... I'll have to hope for the best.

I got my window theme to work, so that's also another good thing. The background also isn't broken as well (:D)

I can't install things from the live CD, since the install/remove software is limited to what's on the CD itself... So I'm not exactly sure what packages are there, though I'm sure there will be support for what I want.

My CPU fan isn't going nuts for no reason (:D)

Everything feels snappy for a Live CD, which is something I'm not used to. Ah, okay, I just checked the system monitor, and there's about 630MB of ram used... so I'm guessing it dumped the Live CD to the RAM. Though it did this, I'm still expecting it to be relatively quick when installed.

Hmm... there's NTP support, though I'm probably going to have to configure it via command line :/

According to DistroWatch, it uses GRUB 1, but I might do a test install on a separate disk to see if it detects other OS's... (:/) Screw it, I'll stay with LM and GRUB2. (LOL)

There seems to be a file-sharing type thing (partition sharer I think it was called), so maybe it's like an FTP? If so, and it works well, then it will make sharing files easy again (instead of awkwardly doing it with Filezilla.

Terminal feels the same in terms of su. Sudo doesn't exist apparently, but at least it's not clunky like Fedora where I use su, then use sudo. (-_-;;)

I'm liking it so far, just gotta install and test it out (just gotta remember to backup the themes and Rhythmbox preferences beforehand XD).