From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 27 May 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   <6oSdnd8rdfXn-j7MnZ2dnUVZ_oednZ2d@posted.lerostechnologies>, Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >TJ wrote:   
      
   >> alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats wrote:   
      
   >>> Total posts considered: 6 over 7 days   
      
   >> Wow. This group is dying faster than the Mandrake group did after   
   >> the name change to Mandriva.   
      
   I suspect a lot of it is that Mandriva essentially opted out of the   
   (for the lack of a better word) hacker business. This is somewhat   
   similar to what happened to Red Hat after they did the same (with the   
   Fedora branding).  Both Red Hat and Mandriva continue to exist, but   
   the users are completely different.  On top of that, there is the   
   continuing decline in Usenet readership.   
      
   >> This post alone will probably get me into next week's "Top 6   
   >> posters" list, when a couple of years ago it wouldn't even have   
   >> been noticed.   
      
   >Without Adam, the Re: OT: Off-Topic thread would seem an   
   >endangered species, so level of activity may drop even more.   
      
   Agree   
      
   >I doubt this will affect the newsgroup unless the Russians file   
   >lawsuits to get the thing abolished and discontinued by all.   
   >Probably not worth their effort.   
      
   Who could they sue?  The Usenet Corp at 1060 W. Addison Street in   
   Chicago?  The London office at 23 Leinster Gardens, Paddington?  ;-}   
   (Don't forget the Mandrake suit was against the software company, not   
   the news group, which still exists - my logs show 12 posts to it so   
   far this year, mostly spam.)  This is an alternative newsgroup, and   
   such groups are carried at the whim of the administrator of the   
   individual news server.   There are a couple thousand "public" news   
   servers out there, and there is no single central point one could nuke   
   to stop things.  Usenet is an unaffiliated bunch of peer-to-peer   
   agreements.   The only ones who might make anything are the lawyers   
   (it would be a significant cost for the trademark owner), and that   
   would depend on the lawyers finding friendly courts in the various   
   individual countries that might have jurisdiction over servers within   
   that country to bring legal action.   
      
   [fermi ~]$ grep -c ^alt /var/spool/news/giganewsrc   
   37437   
   [fermi ~]$ grep -c ^alt /var/spool/news/motzarellarc   
   8685   
   [fermi ~]$ zgrep -c ^alt /net/james-webb/var/news.old/kcdatarc.gz   
   11221   
   [fermi ~]$   
      
   >Personally, I have successfully installed Mageia 3 dual-boot with   
   >Winblows 8 on a new hp laptop   
      
   Which one did you finally get?  My wife almost bought an Acer last   
   weekend, but she's looking for an Ultrabook (<12" screen).   
      
   >and will soon install that on my main and backup desktop machines.   
   >There are some minor problems and much tinkering to do to get things   
   >to my satisfaction, but that is just a matter of time.   
      
   That's also to be expected   
      
   >Should I decide that ironing out the wrinkles with Mageia 3   
   >leaves me with too few computer problems, Per Oyvind Karlsen has   
   >released his Moondrake, more or less comparable to OpenMandriva   
   >2012 Alpha or whatever it may be called, so there are a couple of   
   >alphas I could play with.   
      
     DistroWatch database summary (DistroWatch Weekly, 27 May 2013)   
        * Number of all distributions in the database: 752   
        * Number of active distributions in the database: 300   
        * Number of dormant distributions: 49   
        * Number of discontinued distributions: 403   
        * Number of distributions on the waiting list: 288   
      
   I think there is a choice available  ;-)   
      
           Old guy   
      
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