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).

Mageia 2 Part 1

So I was poking around DistroWatch out of boredom... and saw that in the past 6 months, Mageia had taken #2 spot in page hit rankings (dethroning everything except Linux Mint).

It's a fork of Mandriva, but I'm willing to try it, since I'm kinda upset with openSUSE 12.2.

Maybe it's time for me to move on again (:/) If Mageia works out well, I may say goodbye to openSUSE, since Radeon/FGLRX is no longer a problem with the 3.x kernel.

Well, I won't abandon the openSUSE 11.3 installations I currently have though, that's just stupid. (XD)

openSUSE 12.2

Well, it was finally released yesterday. I finally got around to downloading it today and burning it...

The "firefly" loading screen is refreshing and nice to look at. But the background is still screwed up... So it seems that I won't be installing it anytime soon... What I'm gonna have to do is to just stay with what I have now and upgrade certain packages manually... *sigh*

Another annoying thing I've noticed with the 3.x kernel is that the CPU fan is kicked up to max. :/

Well, there's really not much more to say.

openSUSE 12.2 RC1

Well, so far it seems like all the problems I had from B1 was carried over.

The background isn't blank though, it appears as a broken picture instead. I still didn't have luck with the dual displays either.

Well, looks like I'm stuck with M2 until the official release of 12.2.

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 2

Well, I gave up on B1 and decided to revert to M2...

One thing I found was that M2 has the correct 12.2 repositories (ones that belong to 12.2) so I suppose I actually could just use M2.

As for GRUB2 testing... well, i'm gonna have to wait on that... or whenever I burn B1 again with K3b (with Melty)

AMD FX 3

Okay, so I stuck that new PSU with Lie-chan and no problems. So my assumption is that the rail for the extra 4 pins of the 8-pin CPU connector is faulty, since Lie-chan only needs the original 4 pins. So I think I'm just gonna save myself the trouble of contacting them and waiting for a replacement and sending that back.

Anyway, onto the main reason why I came to type (hopefully I can finish quickly). She finally has a name! Melty Do Granite from Shining Hearts. I went through about 17000 characters on ACDB, came up with 9 candidates, narrowed it down to 3 and did a 17-round elimination where Melty would generate a number between 1 and 99...

Well, I'll finish up later... In a thunderstorm and the internet went out...

2014 update: I actually forgot to finish this comment/post (v1/v2), and now it's way too late to remember what I was going to write.

openSUSE 12.2 Beta 1 Part 1

Well, so far my experience isn't very good. First the background isn't working, second I can't get the other monitor to extend the desktop, third everything in Yast is broken.

Now I know the ISO itself is good, but it also could have been a bad burn maybe... I dunno....

Well, if I'm up to it later I may turn Mei-chan on and burn it with K3B and not Brasero.