I did a preview scan of a piece of my wife’s notepad paper just to confirm, and sure enough it worked. Upon finishing the installation, I was absolutely delighted to see that it not only found my printer and scanner, but configured them both and they both work out of the box! This has been my major beef with every distro I’ve tried…printer config is a bear and sorry, no scanner for you (I have an HP ScanJet 4300c)! It was REALLY disappointing with MDK 9.0 and RH 8.0, because they saw that the scanner was there and the model, and it STILL didn’t work. So I started the install, and if you’ve installed Mandrake before it’s pretty much the same now, only prettier and more professional looking, and a bit more organized…no more huge laundry list down the left side and no more bad English translations! I won’t go through the nitty-gritty details beyond that because there are dozens of reviews for this on the web already, just keep this in mind – it’s fast and it works. I also use this program to distribute audience recordings of bands, and I highly recommend using it whenever possible as a user, and urge people who serve to use it more frequently in situations where lots of people want the same thing at the same time (i.e. I started the download via Bit Torrent Friday night and had all 3. I’m also very proud of my aluminum Lian Li case 🙂Įnough about me, onto the part you care about: My experiences with installation AND use of Mandrake 9.1.

GeForce 2 MX 400 64 MB DDR, Yamaha 44x24x44 CD-RW, Sony 16x DVD/52x CD-ROM, 256MB Atlas Precision Brand DDR-SDRAM.

My machine is an Athlon XP 1700+ on a Soyo Dragon Plus (built-in sound and wake-on LAN) that I built myself. And of course, every version of Windows since 3.11 for Workgroups 🙂 I was also employed in a position doing computer peripheral support for about a year, and most of the problems were with Windows, not with the product, so I know my way around a computer that has Windows from that, and I have a decent grasp of Linux from installing Gentoo 1.2, but I am by no means a Linux Guru. I’ve previously installed (and used) Mandrake 8.1, 8.2, and 9.0, along with Red Hat 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0, and finally Gentoo 1.2. Some of the people complained about the two previous posted reviews being incoherant and you said “write your own”, so I thought I would throw my two cents in… Editorial Notice: All opinions are those of the author and not necessarily those of įirst some background about me and my machine.

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