From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Friday 22 February 2013 00:51, unruh conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > 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 would not compare Mageia with Fedora, even if only because Mageia is   
   by default comprised of sufficiently stable packages already, with extra   
   repositories for bleeding edge stuff not enabled by default, whereas   
   Fedora /is/ bleeding edge, period.   
      
   Out of the box, Mageia is probably more on par with Debian Wheezy (alias   
   "Debian Testing"), whereas Fedora is more like Debian Sid (alias "Debian   
   Unstable").   
      
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