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   Adam to unruh   
   Re: Mandriva SA to transfer distro to an   
   21 May 12 10:31:20   
   
   From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   unruh wrote:   
   > On 2012-05-21, Adam  wrote:   
   >> IOW the two repositories [Mandriva & Mageia] aren't, or   
   >> soon won't be, able to complement each other.   
   >   
   > AFAIK there are packages from the SUSE repository that can run on   
   > Mandriva. And they have diverged for a while.   
      
   I didn't know that (some?) packages from the SUSE repository would   
   work under Mandriva.   
      
   >> Mageia becoming Mandriva Free?  That sounds like it would be a good   
   >> thing, at least for me as an end user.   
   >   
   > I do not think that MandrivaFree plus Mageia separately is stable.   
      
   Hmmm.  I'm watching what others say here for comments on the two   
   distributions.  I may need to quantify my own definition of a   
   "better" distro.  Certainly "stability" would be a part of it.   
      
   Adam   
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