Headache with Mandriva 2009
By spiderman05
@spiderman05 (851)
Canada
October 26, 2008 3:57pm CST
As usual Mandriva released its new distribution a few days ago. As usual, I jumped in and upgraded to the new release. I was mostly hoping that this release will allow me finally to solve my Wifi configuration problem.
I did an upgrade, so I am still using KDE 3.5. This seems to be good as I read on some forums that KDE 4 is not ready yet.
On the other hand, instead of solving problems, this upgrade brought a whole bunch of new ones. Now, I cannot play any video files using VLC or Kaffeine. The Wifi problem was not solved either. So, I regret that I did this upgrade and will downgrade in the coming days to Mandriva 2008.0
4 responses
@jason1308 (1586)
• France
29 Oct 08
I was using Mandriva 2008.1 Xfce edition, and then it flashed up about the update on the MCC and so went for it, and so far haven't noticed any problems. Everything works as it did before.
I have noticed on the forums though that a lot of people are not impressed with KDE 4 and believe it is causing a lot of problems, as it isn't really ready. But I am not sure if you can successfully run KDE 3.5 and the latest upgrades for 2009.
I would suggest either a clean install of 2009 and see how that goes, even perhaps try a different Desktop Enviroment (Xfce or Gnome) unless you are really keen on KDE.
If you still encounter problems, then re-install spring 2008.1 and keep with that until 2009.1 (spring ?) comes out then upgrade. Hopefully KDE will have ironed out any problems by then.
Hope this helps.
@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
29 Oct 08
I think I will have to go for a fresh install of Mandriva 2008.1. I have never installed this distribution, I upgraded right away from Mandriva 2008.0 to 2009 maybe that is the source of all the problems I am encountering now.
Thank you for your input.
@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
29 Oct 08
Thanks for the reply. I am so used to Mandriva now. I am afraid that UBUNTU does not include a wide collection of development tools as it seems more targeted to the wide public.
