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Just made a fresh install on my 64 bit system. Runs fine and installed fairly quick and easy.

There are some buts about it...

No PLF, so forget the good CODECs that helped you with multimedia.
No easy URPMI and pick the repos of choice.

With that alone kind of discouraged me. Mageia was the ndiswrapper that did not worked, I think was version 2.
Going to try 3 later. It has all the goodies like the old Mandrake/Mandriva used to be.

urpmi works ..
and it is more new urpmi with an other (or more) switches ..
and read the man uals (man urpmi)
but you mus add the sources, the best if you add it via drakeconf -> rpmthings *s* an spezific source,
with it become you the cooker (i think so)
then works urpmi from the net ..

best regards
Blacky

PLF should be the same as the restricted repos:

Restricted: http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/openm ... ed/release
Restricted updates: http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/openm ... ed/updates
But as blacky stated it should all be added if you pick the add button in MCC (remember to remove the CD repos).

I have the restricted repos. Looked for CODECs and could not find anything useful. Still no able to play DVD movies.

Searched for Transcoded and libdvdcss and they are not listed.

Going to install Mageia 3 and see how that goes.

OK- let us know....

Mageia 3 rocks !

They have CODECs and all the goodies that I am looking for.

K9Copy is on it; is a great application to backup with your DVD collection.
Hate to buy a disk and get it all messed up on a vacation trip; happen to me way too many times.

I added the Repos to Mandriva Lx, they are lame. Just basic stuff.

Yes Mageia is good. I used it to upgrade my mothers old XP laptop.
She is happy as a peach with it and she is non tech all the way - so it seems to just work. I did only test what was there in OpenMandriva - not what was missing . and that is apparently a lot.

And if you want to upgrade from 2010.1 then Mageia is the most likely to "work".

Agree; if you want to migrate from Mandrake/Mandriva, Mageia is the way to go.

Gosh... I do not like that Rosa crap.
I like my Computers/OS clean, functional and simple.