From: unruh@invalid.ca
On 2013-04-24, TJ wrote:
> On 04/23/2013 09:05 PM, Adam wrote:
>>
>> David W. Hodgins wrote:
>>>
>>> I think most of the prior Mandriva users from here are now using Mageia.
>>
>> That was a surprisingly bloodless revolution -- I saw relatively few
>> posts here trying to influence others either way. Kind of how
>> LibreOffice seems to have quietly supplanted OpenOffice.org for many
>> users and distros.
>>
> For my part, it didn't seem like a revolution at all to go with Mageia.
> It was more like Mandriva left me - I didn't leave Mandriva. Mageia
> is/was what the old Mandriva would have become, had it stayed the
> course. Mandriva became the fork. Very much the way things unfolded with
> LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Yes, Mandriva went into the wilderness and got lost. It was either
abandon M entirely ( and I liked too much of how they did thing-- well not
the way they handled wireless-- to want to learn all the idiosyncracies
of yet another distro.) or go with Mageia.
I do wish they would get their wireless act together. That the wireless
connection program still does not work properly (it listens on the wrong
dbus line for information, and they refuse to compile wpa_supplicant
with debugging to a file disabled so you cannot figure out what is
wrong, and they do not handle wpa_supplicant badly-- wpa_supplicant
simply tries to connect to some file in wpa_supplicant.conf, not the
essid selected by the user) is scandelous. I think that whoever is
responsible for wireless is simply not taking the problem seriously.
Another minor niggle is that they still refuse to fix the problem with
the msec script refusing to allow you to change the behaviour of the
CtrlAltDel in inittab.
-- forcing it via msec to always reboot rather than halt the system.
That one is simply lunacy on Mageia's part.
>
> TJ
>
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