From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Monday 21 May 2012 18:54, Bit Twister conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >> On Mon, 21 May 2012 12:31:42 -0400, Adam wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I suppose I could start following Mageia newsgroups to see what   
   >>> support is offered there.  This newsgroup has certainly been a major   
   >>> factor in my decision to stay with Mandr*.   
   >>   
   >> I think you will find a few subject matter experts lurking in   
   >> theMageia news group that post here.   
      
   Just yesterday I subscribed to a.o.l.mageia now that   
   eternal-september carries it (back to about New Year's), and I see   
   numerous familiar names posting there.   
      
   > Traffic may seem a bit lesser in volume in alt.os.linux.mageia than it   
   > does here, but then again, it doesn't have an "[Off-topic]" thread. :pp   
      
   I'm trying hard to stay on topic, or close to it, in this and other   
   threads here.  The subject line here is "Mandriva SA to transfer   
   distro to an independent entity, says CEO" and my questions started   
   with "What does this mean to users, in practical terms?" and now   
   "With that change, what should I do?"  I do /not/ want to be known   
   as "the off-topic guy" or as a thread hijacker, because I'm not.   
      
   > That is certainly true.  No absolute n00bs there.  Almost everyone using   
   > Mageia had already been using Mandriva/Mandrake or another distro prior   
   > to that.  No Windows refugees there. :p   
      
   Yes, I see some familiar names there.  I don't mind newbies when   
   their questions are relevant -- after all, I was a newbie once, and   
   so was everybody else in both groups.  What I look for more is S/N   
   ratio.   
      
   > And that's just going back to a thread that Maurice Batey started on   
   > April 27th 2012.  Everything before that has already been expired by my   
   > newsreader.   
      
   My news server, eternal-september, seems to have a.o.l.mageia back   
   to about New Year's.   
      
   > I would even say that it's   
   > a shame he hasn't decided to monitor that group a long time ago already.   
      
   Until recently, I was sticking with Mandriva 2010.0, so I didn't see   
   any point in following another distro's group.   
      
   > PCLinuxOS is also a Mandriva spin-off, but there is - at least, at this   
   > stage still - a far greater uniformity and commonality between Mandriva   
   > and Mageia than between either of those and PCLinuxOS.   
      
   But IMHO questions about Mageia seem inappropriate in a.o.l.mandriva   
   unless they also apply to Mandriva.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   As I said, my definition of a "better" distro for me will include   
   numerous factors of varying importance.  Possibly the "best" distro   
   for me right now IMO might even be something else entirely.   
      
   A while back, I learned a technique for quantifying subjective   
   decisions into objective ones, and I may end up using that method   
   here too.   
      
   Adam   
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