I've been reading about the Mandriva 2007 release (http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007/) just recently and it looks fantastic to me. I've been a long time Windoze user and a occasional Linux explorer. I've installed Mandriva 9 & 10 previously and found them somewhat hard for the complete Linux newbie like myself. I eventually settled with a simple Feather Linux distro and found it very quick to learn. 20mins and I could do stuff with it, compared to me previous linux experiences where 2-3 weeks went by and I got sick of it and went back to Windoze.
Now having looked at this new release, having the cedega engine for windoze games (takes car of my gaming needs) and useful programs like VMWare built in make it a very attractive choice for me to convert from the Windoze universe over to what seems to be a ever coming user friendly Linux world.
I'm just wanting to hear what some of you other Linux gurus think of this release (I'm looking specificallly at the PowerPack version) as it completely removes my need of going to Vista, allows me to play windows games, handles my windows needs via VMWare (Also my apache server on VM) and will generally buff my computing experience up a bit running the more stable, secure, effecient Linux plateform.
Linux_0, I'm really interested in hearing you veteran oppinion
***I was actually put onto this by a friend who is a Linux guru, just he's always so busy with work I never get the chance to talk to him about Linux ***
Now having looked at this new release, having the cedega engine for windoze games (takes car of my gaming needs) and useful programs like VMWare built in make it a very attractive choice for me to convert from the Windoze universe over to what seems to be a ever coming user friendly Linux world.
I'm just wanting to hear what some of you other Linux gurus think of this release (I'm looking specificallly at the PowerPack version) as it completely removes my need of going to Vista, allows me to play windows games, handles my windows needs via VMWare (Also my apache server on VM) and will generally buff my computing experience up a bit running the more stable, secure, effecient Linux plateform.
Linux_0, I'm really interested in hearing you veteran oppinion
***I was actually put onto this by a friend who is a Linux guru, just he's always so busy with work I never get the chance to talk to him about Linux ***