A Mandrake Move progress report.

While most things seem to work pretty well, a few notes.

I have a PIII 1G 512 Mb

Once loaded, it runs pretty quick - until it needs something off the CD - normal CD access speed applies - a HD install would speed those bits up. First Access only of new SW like Open Office etc is a bit slower too. Maybe a disk cache is being used. There is a Swapfile.

I have a CD reader and a CD writer - it setup both as read only - reasonable failsafe approach - just change the writer to be writable.

I tried to access the floppy drive and it crashed - just that bit - the OS itself is stable. It crashed because I had no floppy in the drive - sad that - rather disappointed that such a simple error check was not implemented....

It had no midi player installed - you need to get some more s/w, - but it played .wav & .mp3 ok. Only thing is that the sound level output was much lower than when in windows - I needed to turn up the speaker volume on the box itself, then turn it down in windows.

Also it stuffed around with the screen (max res 800x640 as standard) - I normally like 1024 resln in windows - shifting the screen around so it needs to be realigned between Win & Linux. - minor hassle.

UNIX tricks that I already know (file locations, mounting disks etc - things that are very different to the Win Way), because I have used UNIX variants for ages are all covered in the included tutorial which is highly recommended for newbies to work thru slowly and thoroughly first.

Robin