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Mageia 6 Plasma 5


raymac46

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I've downloaded the beta version of Mageia 6 Plasma 5 and I'm trying it out now on a USB stick.

 

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I've never been a big KDE fan but this particular desktop is pretty impressive. They have come a long way since KDE 4. I don't know how well it'll work in VirtualBox since the 3D capabilities in VBox are pretty limited.

Of course you get all the Mandriva Control Center Tools that I really like. If you are interested in trying out a real solid RPM based distro give it a try.

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System:    Host: localhost Kernel: 4.9.16-desktop-1.mga6 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
	   Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.8.6 (Qt 5.6.2) Distro: Mageia 6 mga6
Machine:   Device: oracle System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
	   Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:	   Dual core AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-) cache: 4096 KB
	   flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3) bmips: 14401
	   clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 3600 MHz 2: 3600 MHz
Graphics:  Card: InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Graphics Adapter bus-ID: 00:02.0
	   Display Server: Mageia X.org 119.3 drivers: modesetting,v4l Resolution: 1920x978@59.94hz
	   GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 128 bits)
	   GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:	 Card Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: d100 d200 bus-ID: 00:05.0
	   Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.16-desktop-1.mga6
Network:   Card: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
	   driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: d010 bus-ID: 00:03.0
	   IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 17.2GB (49.4% used)
	   ID-1: /dev/sda model: VBOX_HARDDISK size: 17.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 14G used: 5.6G (45%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
	   ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.64GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:	  No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:	  Processes: 177 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 621.0/2002.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A																																	   
	   Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.3.8																																														 
[ray@localhost ~]$																																																						  
  

 

Zowie! I installed Mageia 6 in VirtualBox and the update was 715 packages - almost like a Netinstall of the whole system. It rebooted OK fortunately.

The Plasma desktop does work in VBox; as you can see above it uses the software llvmpipe to give 3D rendering. I wouldn't want to game with it, but at least the desktop is functional.

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