Yay for 2009.0

Hey guys, I'm back with a brand new operating system :)

After installing I encountered some bug with the display manager that made the keyboard stop working after a while so I needed to use KDM 3.

KDE 4 is awesome! Here's a screenshot:

I'm still a bit unfamiliar with the changes though :( I can't find the new hotkey for "Show desktop", which used to be Ctrl-Alt-D in KDE 3. The PrintScreen key doesn't seem to work, and I need to run the ksnapshot command to take a screnshot. The desktop setting to change the monitor gamma is gone, and I need to use the xgamma command. And more...

Let's try to tame this new penguin :)

Mandriva Linux 2009.0

Mandriva announced the official public release of Mandriva Linux 2009.0 yesterday. It's the first time in many years they've met their scheduled date! I am downloading it now. Wish me good luck!

2008.1 finally

Didn't want to reinstall the whole system from scratch, I have been trying to upgrade the old packages manually.

Things went fine until yesterday.

After a massive upgrade of more than 100 packages, I rebooted the system and found myself logging into the text mode. X server failed to start. Looking at the logs I found that a video driver module failed to load. Well, that's the worst situation you could get yourself involved in.

So I decided to take the risk and try updating my system using the installation CDs. The estimated time was more than 3 hours, but actually the packages were all upgraded in just an hour. In the end, I got an error claiming that some media.cfg file could not be found, but after rebooting everything went fine.

Finally I got my system up-to-date (hopefully) with minimal efforts. Now it's time to try out all the new features!

wtf?

[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum xaa
28cac97e24514e00da387d605d64e9d4  xaa
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ cp xaa /home/quangntenemy/iso/
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
30b5260aa446ba28e9aa5cc2d31f3766  /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ cp xaa /home/quangntenemy/iso/
cp: overwrite `/home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa'? y
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
8bf1672d80eef1beefcc528ea8bff1ba  /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ cp -f xaa /home/quangntenemy/iso/
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
26c5636cb00f103689f9432e9ff529a8  /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
26c5636cb00f103689f9432e9ff529a8  /home/quangntenemy/iso/xaa
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ f***
bash: f***: command not found
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ cp xaa /mnt/data/iso/
[quangntenemy@localhost mandriva]$ md5sum /mnt/data/iso/xaa
28cac97e24514e00da387d605d64e9d4  /mnt/data/iso/xaa

Err wtf's happening here?

I was trying to copy a file of about 2GB from my USB to my hard disk, but the checksum failed all the time :(

In the end I managed to get things done by copying the file to a fat32 partition instead.

I guess it's kinda buggy copying files between different types of partition...

Any explanation?

Mandriva 2008.1 Spring

Finally! The official spring version of Mandriva Linux was released last week. And as a great fan, I downloaded the 3 cd version and tried upgrading my system to see the cool new features.

Unfortunately, after inspecting my system, the installer warned me that it could not do a safe upgrade to 2008.1 and recommended that I do a fresh install instead. I have had enough problems after every system upgrade so I figured it would be best to do as advised. But I have been enjoying my box so much that it will take a lot of time to back up the data, install the new system and customize it...

So I guess I'll have to hold it back for a little longer...