SuSE to Mandriva to SuSE & Chronicle Lite

I suppose I understand some of the frustration people use to Windows feel when moving to Linux, after all, old habits really do die hard. But if you don't try new things you never know when you might be missing out on something terrific.

So last night I wiped off SuSE 9.2 and installed Mandriva 10.2. I spent much of the night learning about urpmi, and urpmf, the apt and apt-cache like software for Mandriva. Unfortunately Mandrake/Mandriva just doesn't have the software that comes with the SuSE 9.2 DVD, and while 10.2 is probably one of the best versions of Mandrake in a long time for stability, at least on my systems, I tossed it after a few hours of trying to get different blogging software to compile and run under it.

Which leads me to mentioning Chronicle Lite, blogging software I'm using to create this post. The blogger.com interface is fine for posts, but by using an interface to blogger.com I can compose posts offline. Over the next few days I'm planning on trying a few interfaces until I find something that works right. I like Chronicle Lite, it works, and the web/java-based installer made installation a snap, but it seems to lack some basic features, such as the ability to post a title.