Friend and Linux advocate extraordinaire, Marcel Gagne, has used Linux Mandrake, now Mandriva, on his desktop for years, at least as long as I've known him. Though Fedora Core 4 has been serving me pretty well the past while, there are things I miss about SuSE Linux, such as the ease of switching between wireless networks - just switch profiles. I'm sure Fedora has such a thing too, but it doesn't seem as evident, and the Fedora docs team just don't seem to have it together quite the way the Ubuntu wiki does. I like Ubuntu, but I want a change, something different from what I install at work, Mandriva fits the ticket.
Before making the move I decided to compile a list of my killer apps:
- Bittorrent - any graphical bittorrent client will do.
- Bluefish - I really like the tag completion for CSS.
- Camstreams - works well with my IBM camera.
- Dia - great for organizing a network or thoughts.
- Easytag - must have for retagging audio files.
- Gimp - the premier bitmap image editor.
- Gnutella - non-commercial gnutella client.
- gThumb image viewer - makes very nice web photo albums.
- Gweled - I'm a Gweled addict.
- Inkscape - couldn't do without, vector image editor.
- Ipodder - I'm turning into a podcast junkie.
- KBattleship - My brother and I play networked over the net.
- Kmail - I like kmail much better than evolution.
- Mplayer - the best video viewing package bar none.
- OpenOffice 2.x - the office suite that will crush Microsoft Office.
- Pan - simple but powerful news reader.
- Scribus - great for laying out documents.
- Transcode - moving my video collection to hard drive.
- Transgaming Cedega - to play Diablo and Nox.
- Tsclient - connect to my Windows box.
- Xchat - my favourite IRC client.
- Xmms - music is best played with XMMS.
I'd link to the rest but sleep is catching up with me. Tomorrow I might possibly get to the Mandriva installation in the evening.
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