May 16th, 2009 | nubae
Mandriva 2009 and Freebsd 7.1 review
Mandriva 2009
I didn't get very far with Mandriva due to its very obtrusive and stubborn
partitioning system. The heart of an installation is measured by the
partitioning system it uses, where both openSUSE and Ubuntu shine. Ubuntu is
particularly good at understanding that you may have other operating systems on
partitions which you would like to consolidate rather than oblitirate.
Mandriva's
Draken partitioner, on the other hand, decided my existing partitions were so
corrupt it couldn't do anything but reformat everything and install itself in
place of everything else. Needless to say, I opted out of that option, and put
the dvd away where the sun doesn't shine. I then, just to confirm my hypothesis
that the partitioner was at fault, installed ubuntu, which immeditely picked up
all my other partitions (I had openSUSE, knoppix and freebsd already installed)
and labelled them correctly in Grub, allowing me to have my quadro-boot system.
FreeBSD 7.1
The last time I looked into the BSDs was probably more than 8 years ago, and
was eager to see how it fared compared to the Linuxes. The installation process
for FreeBSD is no trivial task, and I don't see anyone except really seasoned
geeks being able to install it, understanding what it is doing. The neat thing
though, is you can dedicate a single partition to it, and let it do the rest. Once installed,
there was no automatic teleportation to the X windows system.
Instead, after
trial and error, I found I had to start X using the gdm command, but from a
root user only! I know I could have messed with permissions to get it to work
for a regular user and the like, but it was another complicated stumbling block
for beginning users. Once in Gnome, it looked like any other gnome environment,
except there was no easy graphical method for installing new programs.
I blame
a lot of this on my lack of experience in the BSD area. It has been too long
since I used it properly, so getting out a book and studying up would probably
have made my experience a little nicer. That said, freeBSD has 'beginner bsd
setups' that make life easier like PCBSD and easybsd.
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