Linux it's free... Good Thing Because It's Full Of Bugs.. 4616

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:47:44 -0500, WCB

The latest Mandriva, according to the people who created it, and therefore should know what they're talking about, wasn't really meant for anyone but geek-types. It's a transitional thing. Personally I do fine the weird penguin a bit annoying, but I don't think it's going to last.

Dunno what you mean about the goldfish.

That's nothing new. It doesn't seem to have hurt them any.

Frankly, most of the distros have pretty bad wallpaers for KDE, though that seems to be changing. It's not a big issue for me, I always change to my own favourite wallpapers more or less straight away.

Have you checked all this is the same in the coporate versions?

You can get icons and wallpapers of all kinds at kde-look.org, so why should Mandriva have to do it? Myself, I keep a number of favourites to hand for whenever I'm installing or perhaps using a Live Cd

The KDE Control Centre makes it prety easy to change any aspect of the desktop. And when you start Mandriva for the first time, it usually asks if you'd like to set up your desktop

You want ugly? Take a look at Fedora.

IMO, the next official release of Mandriva will look more 'professional', if that's what you really want. LE2005 is just a transitional release.

-- Kier