From: mnieuw@zap.a2000.nl   
      
   On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:28:16 +0000 (UTC), Bob Grimes wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:58:22 +0200, Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi,   
   >>   
   >> I wanted to upgrade an existing Mandriva 2010.2 machine to 2011, but   
   >> that doesn't work with the Live 2011. I am quite willing to buy the   
   >> Powerpack to support Mandriva, but I am not willing to part with things   
   >> like address and telnr . If I buy something in a normal shop I don't   
   >> even have to give my name, I see no reason why they need anything more   
   >> than my email (for delivery) and money. So a missed sale opportunity for   
   >> Mandriva. I have bought several Mandrake/Mandriva versions since 2002,   
   >> but as I cannot get it in a normal shop anymore or from my favorate   
   >> online reseller, I am now downloading Mageia. See if that is useful, if   
   >> not, I'll stick with 2010.2 for a while more.   
   >> BTW, after this I tried the online update, but that warned of   
   >> incompatible modules. In a previous upgrade (2009 to 2010 I think),   
   >> after continuing in spite of the warnings I ended up with a broken   
   >> system, so I'm not going to try that anymore.   
   >>   
   >> Mat Nieuwenhoven   
   >   
   >Didn't you used to use OS/2?  I thought that I saw you on the Mensys   
   >groups.   
      
   I still do as my main system, look at the header of this post, and have no   
   plans to change that. But I've always tried to keep up with other OS-es,   
   through multi-boot; not Windows though, I've got too much of that at work.   
   And having tried a number of Linuxes, I found Mandriva (then Mandrake) in   
   2001 the one most agreeable with me. I keep looking at other Linuxes. But for   
   instance, Gnome 3 I don't like at all so far, it takes control away from me   
   compared to Gnome 2.   
      
   Mat Nieuwenhoven   
      
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