{"id":1001,"date":"2011-09-04T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2011-09-04T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T08:05:00","slug":"a-mageia-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2011\/09\/04\/a-mageia-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mageia Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just one little rant from a new Mageia user – we get quite a few of these, so <\/em>you could think of it as a representative sample:<\/em><\/p>\n

My new Thinkpad came Friday morning: A T520, quad Core i7, 8GB RAM, 15.6 inch\u00a0screen, built in WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, etc..<\/p>\n

After burning 4 DVDs to create a boot and restore disks for the Win7 Pro and
\nother software that came pre-installed, I shrank the main Windows partition down,
\nleaving a couple hundred GB of free space for a Linux install.<\/p>\n

I decided it was finally time to give Mageia 1 a try. I burnt a DVD from the x64
\niso and proceeded to install. I chose Gnome over KDE, this time, because of the
\nmodestly smaller footprint. (I’m comfortable with both)<\/p>\n

With no CLI tweaking at all, I got everything to work… and I mean everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sound and video worked immediately. WiFi worked once I was online and the system
\ncould fetch the correct driver. (No NDISwrapper wanted nor needed here)<\/p>\n

All of the special buttons work. The WiFi toggle button, the volume buttons, mute
\nbutton, sleep mode button. I fired up Firefox and browsed using WiFi to my music
\nserver. Selecting an album to play, I found that the buttons to pause, skip
\ntracks forwards and backwards, and stop, all worked correctly with the default
\nmovie player.<\/p>\n

Making the Bluetooth mouse work required merely using Gnome’s Bluetooth config
\ntool and pairing the devices. Poof! The mouse was working too. No hand editing of
\nXorg.conf!<\/p>\n

CPU speed-stepping works. Sleep mode kicks in if I either close the lid or press
\nthe sleep button, and comes back up correctly later. Pressing the lock button
\nlocks the screen, causing the usual login prompt to appear. Scrolling works in
\nboth axis if I slide my finger along the edge of the track pad.<\/p>\n

I’ve done a lot of Linux installs, but I’ve never seen this much hardware work
\nright-out-of-the-box on any machine, let alone a laptop. The Win7 side couldn’t
\nsee the Bluetooth mouse without the driver CD, but Mageia 1 had it covered. Amazing.<\/p>\n

Tis truly a sweet machine with a very sweet Linux install.<\/p>\n

Long Live Urpmi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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