From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 05/22/2012 01:31 AM, Aragorn wrote:   
   > Mageia still looks and feels like Mandriva in every way,   
   > except for the branding and the fact that the distribution clearly has   
   > its own personality in terms of how its community and QA/developer team   
   > work.  It really is a community distro, without a corporate overlord   
   > breathing down the developers' necks.  And personally, I like that.   
   >   
   I like it too, Aragorn, but I would have said it just a bit differently.   
   I'd say "Mageia still looks and feels much like the Mandriva before 2011   
   in almost every way..."   
      
   It's always been my opinion that Mandriva is the one that forked off,   
   because of that "corporate overlord." Mageia kept to the course that   
   Mandriva probably would have taken, had all that corporate shakeup (or   
   was it a shakeDOWN?) not happened.   
      
   I don't know if Mandriva Free and Mageia can both survive as separate   
   community-based distros, but with all the Linux distros and derivatives   
   out there, it's not inconceivable. What it takes is a group of people   
   dedicated to the distro's survival, a group willing to work long hours   
   for something other than a paycheck. At present, Mageia has that. Does   
   Mandriva?   
      
   TJ   
      
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