The spring is sunny.

I upgraded my laptop (IBM T42p) from Mandriva 2007.0 to Mandriva 2007.1 (Spring) this week. I have to say I am quite happy now. Everything seems to work fine.

I have a Fire-GL graphical board, and it was setup correctly after some random command.

- Downloaded the ati drivers from plf non-free backport
- I Had problems to make it work thought ...
- So I downloaded the ati drivers from plf non-free
- XFDrake, some X server restart, then I manually ran aticonfig, and now my glxinfo knows that there are some ATI drivers there ...

So I can play with Mantisse or with the 3D desktop, I haven't done that yet but I am looking forward !

On the wifi side, I have an Atheros chip. So I recompiled the mad-wifi drivers that I had in the past, did a make install. And Mandriva network manager found its way to our wireless rooter, in wpa mode. And I'm wondering if my install did something, or what, but now the wifi connection is __way__ faster than it used to be with 2007.0 (maybe another problem, with wep, my previous setting, but I doubt it).

Flash 9 is working, I think I just clicked on the flash installer and rpmdrake showed up. Some next next clicking and I can watch stupid things on youtube.

-> I am a happy user (I might give some bucks to the guys at Mandriva for their hard work), Linux is getting close to be a prime class citizen on the desktop side !