Nov
20
Replacing Windows Apps
Category: Mandriva, Applications, Linux | 
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OK, I’m a geek and I freely admit it, but there’s something very pleasant about finding replacements for some of those applications that are commonly used in Windows with an open source alternative. Back in the earliest days of my PC experience, I had very little money to spend on anything, much less high-end software […]
Nov
18
Success - and now for the next step…
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Since the install of Mandriva 2010 went so well on the laptop, I’ve now changed over this desktop as well. I had originally thought about keeping the Fedora install, but decided to migrate the data off the drive and remove Fedora entirely. Though Fedora always behaved fairly well, there were some features from Mandriva that […]
Nov
16
New Mandriva Distro
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I’m in the process of installing the latest version of Mandriva to my HP laptop as a dual boot with Vista, so this should be interesting. If all goes well, I may install it as a secondary distro on this workstation as well (which currently has Fedora 11 running). So far, so good. The installer […]
