Mageia Rant ;-)

[Adam McCullough]

Magicka is *awesome*. So damn funny.

On 3 September 2011 08:53, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:

> Great Post Kevin!
>
> You need to start a Linux Tech BLOG?
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> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, KevinO <kevin at kevino.org> wrote:
>
>> My new Thinkpad came Friday morning: A T520, quad Core i7, 8GB RAM, 15.6
>> inch
>> screen, built in WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, etc..
>>
>> After burning 4 DVDs to create a boot and restore disks for the Win7 Pro
>> and
>> other software that came pre-installed, I shrank the main Windows
>> partition down,
>> leaving a couple hundred GB of free space for a Linux install.
>>
>> I decided it was finally time to give Mageia 1 a try. I burnt a DVD from
>> the x64
>> iso and proceeded to install. I chose Gnome over KDE, this time, because
>> of the
>> modestly smaller footprint. (I'm comfortable with both)
>>
>> With no CLI tweaking at all, I got everything to work... and I mean
>> _everything_.
>>
>> Sound and video worked immediately. WiFi worked once I was online and the
>> system
>> could fetch the correct driver. (No NDISwrapper wanted nor needed here)
>>
>> All of the special buttons work. The WiFi toggle button, the volume
>> buttons, mute
>> button, sleep mode button. I fired up Firefox and browsed using WiFi to my
>> music
>> server. Selecting an album to play, I found that the buttons to pause,
>> skip
>> tracks forwards and backwards, and stop, all worked correctly with the
>> default
>> movie player.
>>
>> Making the Bluetooth mouse work required merely using Gnome's Bluetooth
>> config
>> tool and pairing the devices. Poof! The mouse was working too. No hand
>> editing of
>> Xorg.conf!
>>
>> CPU speed-stepping works. Sleep mode kicks in if I either close the lid or
>> press
>> the sleep button, and comes back up correctly later. Pressing the lock
>> button
>> locks the screen, causing the usual login prompt to appear. Scrolling
>> works in
>> both axis if I slide my finger along the edge of the track pad.
>>
>> I've done a lot of Linux installs, but I've never seen this much hardware
>> work
>> right-out-of-the-box on any machine, let alone a laptop. The Win7 side
>> couldn't
>> see the Bluetooth mouse without the driver CD, but Mageia 1 had it
>> covered. Amazing.
>>
>> Tis truly a sweet machine with a very sweet Linux install.
>>
>> Long Live Urpmi!
>> --
>> KevinO
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