Excellent HW compatibility w/ 5.10

[Lionel]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> In case people were getting tired of reading my whinging about
> fonts and how I screwed up my first install attempt, I just
> wanted to report that the HW detection and support in 5.10 has
> been excellent.
> 
> So far I've found 4 hardware compatibility issues where
> Mandrake 10.1 fell down but 5.10 has worked flawlessly:
> 
>  1) SMC 802.11 adapter (Carbus).  The standard Mandrake 10.1
>     kernel didn't support it. Ubuntu 5.10 recognized it without
>     problem.
> 
>  2) Mandrake 10.1 alsa sound stuff never worked quite right.
>     Sound mostly worked, but on startup the Alsa subsystem
>     usually reported an error, and on shutdown usually locked
>     up the machine.  No problems with Ubuntu 5.10.
> 
>  3) An old PCMCIA combo Ethernet/Modem card locked up Mandrake
>     10.1 when ejected.  No problems with Ubuntu.
> 
>  4) Under Mandrake, hitting ctrl-alt-backspace in X11 usually
>     horked the Mach64 video card and required a reboot.  No
>     problem in Ubuntu.

Just wondering, is there a competition here with Mandriva? Either way, 
shouldn't you be comparing with at least Mandriva 2005LE, the equivalent 
to 5.10 would really be Mandriva 2006.

I am currently using Kubuntu at home to try something different, and 
Mandriva 10.1 at work. I prefer Mandriva for all the work they have put 
in making it feel like a coherent OS and the control centre is great. 
However the package management is absolute rubbish, I'm always having to 
download huge files, Ubuntu seems to only ever require me to download 
small files and it was only one CD! That's a deciding factor when you 
are on dial up!

Lionel.