From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2012-05-19, Adam  wrote:   
   > unruh wrote:   
   >> On 2012-05-18, Adam  wrote:   
   >>> my impression is that the company Mandriva SA ("SA" is the French   
   >>> equivalent of "incorporated" or "limited" or "LLC") is basically   
   >>> going to let the Mandriva Linux distribution be handled by others,   
   >>> so the future of the distribution depends largely on which of the   
   >>> "others" end up in charge.   
   >>   
   >> There WAS a user version of Mandriva set up already. It is called   
   >> Mageia, which has a bunch of the old Mandriva developers on it as well.   
   >> It would seem silly to now have yet another user controlled version.   
   >> So why doesn't Mandriva SA come to some agreement with Mageia. Or is   
   >> there too much bad blood for that. I am not sure that we have enough   
   >> "volunteers" in the community to do both Mageia and MandrivaFree.   
   >   
   > You may be right about not enough volunteers, which would be   
   > to the detriment of both.  It looks like a considerable portion of   
   > this newsgroup has already switched to Mageia but is still posting   
   > questions here.  OTOH this NG is one of the reasons I've stayed with   
   > Mandr*.  I suppose I'll have to research both (maybe even install   
   > both dual-boot) and see which one is better for me (for my   
   > definition of "better").   
      
   I switched to Mageia 2 on my laptop because Mandriva 2011 and Mageia 1   
   did not work ( crashes on bootup, or if I got it running, on running)   
   When I put on the grub bootloader (I like lilo but it crashed with no   
   message) I decided to try noapic, and then Mageia 2 worked, so I have no   
   idea if Madriva 2011 or Mageia 1 would work with noapic. Everything   
   works. (CFS10 toughbook) I am worried   
   about mandriva with their latest floudering. Mageia does not have the   
   software that Mandriva has (PLF, contrib), so I hope that either Mageia   
   and MandrvaFree unite, or that all of the software that is there for   
   Mandriva comes over.   
      
   In fact, what is the equivalent of contrib under Mageia?   
      
   And where is "restricted" and non-free (eg Acroread, Flash) for Mageia?   
      
      
      
      
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   > Adam   
      
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