From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Sat, 19 May 2012 21:07:28 GMT, unruh wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   My guess would be Tainted.  :)   
      
   Things like skype, flash can be found in nonfree.   
      
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