From: unruh@invalid.ca
On 2013-02-21, Jim Beard wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 01:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> Wish Mandriva would get off its behind but it looks
>> as though they no longer intend to produce a PowerPack version.
>>
>> Not their business model any longer I guess.
>
> The desktop for ordinary users is OpenMandriva, and that is no
> longer a "business" but a foundation, and one that is having
> problems getting its act together.
PowerPack's main claim was the addition of "paid" (non-free) programs
which could be added to the free distro. Mandriva would pay the company
some distribution fee, and then sell it (via the powerpack subscription)
to us. But Mandriva certtainly looks still pretty sick. And the huge
split with many (most) of the people heading out for Mageia (in part
because Mandriva fired them) hurt a lot. And the inability to get
OpenMandriva and Mageia together also hurt. So in many ways Mageia is
now the equivalent of Fedora for Redhat.
>
> I do kind of like rpm 5, and there are a few other factors in its
> favor (including nostalgia for the days when -- and I do remember
> some problems even when it was a commerical operation), but
> Mageia 3 Beta for my main machine is looking better and better.
>
> That will involve a clean install, tailoring everything, and
> moving a whole bunch of stuff over, which is more than I am ready
> to tackle at the moment. I can understand those who are still
> with MDV 2010.2, though I personally disfavor that.
It is getting rather long in the tooth.
>
> The time is definitely approaching for a new OS, though.
> The ancient comment at the Jewish ceremony for the newborn son
> applies: It won't be long now.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>
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