Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 02, 2006 11:05 AM
I haven't used Mandriva 2007, I just read the article, watches the pictured and the movie.
I liked the fact that you could in choose to enable hardware graphics accelerated X server in the configuration, without have to mess with any config files and stuff.
I think the installer could be better. It's not easy to know what the security selection mode is for and how it affects the system. The package selection was in the Installation step, it should have a separate step before the Installation step, and after the partioning step.
I think that it is horrible that it sends a list of installed packages when using Mandrake online services, my privacy is extremely important to me, don't mess with it!
Also, when you click the "Add user" button, the fields just blank, with no notification of that the user was actually added to the system, I think a confirmation would be good.
At the package selection screen, it could be better arranged, it listed desktop environments to the right under "Servers", which didn't seem so good. I don't know if you can only click those checkboxes, of if you can optionally select which packages to install more in-depth.
When select graphics card, it says "Choose X server", which could be more informative such as "Choose graphics card to use for the X server". Also auto-detection would be nice, if it don't already do that.
When you select screen resolution, it shows some entries just saying screen res, and others screen res and "Flatscreen" which is little confusing...
But all in all, the installation seems fairly good, it doesn't seem very complex, it seems like something most people could install.
The menu entries in KDE looked random sorted or something, maybe they could be alphabetically sorted?
And in KDE when you click the "Lock workstation" button, it would be aesthetically nice if it actually faded the screen like in Windows XP.
Maybe a blue theme would look more clean/professional than an orange theme? Though, I guess the orange one looked pretty okay...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 02, 2006 11:05 AMI liked the fact that you could in choose to enable hardware graphics accelerated X server in the configuration, without have to mess with any config files and stuff.
I think the installer could be better. It's not easy to know what the security selection mode is for and how it affects the system. The package selection was in the Installation step, it should have a separate step before the Installation step, and after the partioning step.
I think that it is horrible that it sends a list of installed packages when using Mandrake online services, my privacy is extremely important to me, don't mess with it!
Also, when you click the "Add user" button, the fields just blank, with no notification of that the user was actually added to the system, I think a confirmation would be good.
At the package selection screen, it could be better arranged, it listed desktop environments to the right under "Servers", which didn't seem so good. I don't know if you can only click those checkboxes, of if you can optionally select which packages to install more in-depth.
When select graphics card, it says "Choose X server", which could be more informative such as "Choose graphics card to use for the X server". Also auto-detection would be nice, if it don't already do that.
When you select screen resolution, it shows some entries just saying screen res, and others screen res and "Flatscreen" which is little confusing...
But all in all, the installation seems fairly good, it doesn't seem very complex, it seems like something most people could install.
The menu entries in KDE looked random sorted or something, maybe they could be alphabetically sorted?
And in KDE when you click the "Lock workstation" button, it would be aesthetically nice if it actually faded the screen like in Windows XP.
Maybe a blue theme would look more clean/professional than an orange theme? Though, I guess the orange one looked pretty okay...
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