Dear Boardsters
This is my 1st post. I was getting tired of mandriva's hopeless multimedia support. For example I wanted to DL vids from youtube and convert them to a format that the devede program could process into a useable dvd. Alas it seldom worked and results were variable. Not only this, the sound never worked properly. Sound is provided by a Sony home theatre amp in the lounge and display is HDMI to the Sony bravia TV. The sound is piped using toslink. Both vid and sound come through the wall to my server rack in the next room - my man lab :)
Now please don't get me wrong. This post is not a complaint although several of my comments may appear that way. I'm simply addressing as many of the issues I can think of in a dispassionate manner.
The system is an HP DL580 G4. 4cpu, 16 cores, 12g RAM, 0.6tbHDD RAID 0 1000baseTX 9000mtu. Cound is ctxfi (creative Xfi) and display is managed by Matrox parhelia 256PCIx. It's in the rack in the man-cave because it's noisy. All my other 'puters are in teh rack also, with one exception; I have a Raspberry PI in the lounge connected to a 1tb USB disk. I dunno what I'm going to do with it yet.
What I am finding during my migration is as follows. There is no way to choose the initial users ID#, group ID name and group number. For compatibility with my other systems I want the first user ID 1000 and a private group also 1000 in addition to the ''users' group.
That said; the installation was a breeze, the information presented about the system has been revelationary and amounts to the best installer I've ever seen in over 20 years of using Linux.
Packages are in RPM which I like. urpmi is now replaced with zypper and I can't find various softwares I like using such as HOWTO's, arp-scan. Packaing repositories support information in like rocking horse poo - rare. I can't find help on where to go to increase the range on source repositories...yet.
The yast program is impressive. Like MS's control panel on steroids. I may now be able to dispense with webmin in favour of yast.
Back to the system, more to follow.
Thank you from
Peter
This is my 1st post. I was getting tired of mandriva's hopeless multimedia support. For example I wanted to DL vids from youtube and convert them to a format that the devede program could process into a useable dvd. Alas it seldom worked and results were variable. Not only this, the sound never worked properly. Sound is provided by a Sony home theatre amp in the lounge and display is HDMI to the Sony bravia TV. The sound is piped using toslink. Both vid and sound come through the wall to my server rack in the next room - my man lab :)
Now please don't get me wrong. This post is not a complaint although several of my comments may appear that way. I'm simply addressing as many of the issues I can think of in a dispassionate manner.
The system is an HP DL580 G4. 4cpu, 16 cores, 12g RAM, 0.6tbHDD RAID 0 1000baseTX 9000mtu. Cound is ctxfi (creative Xfi) and display is managed by Matrox parhelia 256PCIx. It's in the rack in the man-cave because it's noisy. All my other 'puters are in teh rack also, with one exception; I have a Raspberry PI in the lounge connected to a 1tb USB disk. I dunno what I'm going to do with it yet.
What I am finding during my migration is as follows. There is no way to choose the initial users ID#, group ID name and group number. For compatibility with my other systems I want the first user ID 1000 and a private group also 1000 in addition to the ''users' group.
That said; the installation was a breeze, the information presented about the system has been revelationary and amounts to the best installer I've ever seen in over 20 years of using Linux.
Packages are in RPM which I like. urpmi is now replaced with zypper and I can't find various softwares I like using such as HOWTO's, arp-scan. Packaing repositories support information in like rocking horse poo - rare. I can't find help on where to go to increase the range on source repositories...yet.
The yast program is impressive. Like MS's control panel on steroids. I may now be able to dispense with webmin in favour of yast.
Back to the system, more to follow.
Thank you from
Peter