From: thorongil@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Saturday 24 August 2013 20:31, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following   
   to alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > I moved from 2010.2 to PCLOS after paying for Mandriva 2011 and   
   > having it not work on my computer.  It took me until this spring to do   
   > that but PCLOS is a lot like Mandriva but updated and it has its   
   > little peculiarities as well but it does not put up Facebook pages   
   > unless some one sends me link.   
   > The chief difference is that root passwords and user accounts etc. are   
   > added after the installation and reboot.  This is a rolling release   
   > with several new ISOs per year and much later kernels than   
   > Mandriva will let you install.   
      
   It also has Debian's Synaptic package manager and APT, in combination   
   with .rpm packages.   
      
   Personally, I skipped the whole Mandriva step.  I still kept on using   
   Mandrake for a long time, and then I moved to PCLinuxOS in 2009.  I   
   still have that installation on my other hard disk as a backup and   
   recovery system, but it's a 32-bit installation as that hard disk came   
   out of a failing 32-bit machine.   
      
   I am currently running the 64-bit flavor of Mageia 1.  Yes, I know   
   that's old, but at least I don't have to put up with /the/ most annoying   
   of all Lennartware yet - by which I mean systemd, of course - and apart   
   from a few bugs here and there, it all works pretty well.   
      
   And before anyone starts grilling me on security updates, I'm pretty   
   sure that none of you have a setup as secure as mine.  I have a   
   diversified partition scheme with very strict mount options for each   
   filesystem, and I run with /boot, /usr, /usr/local and /opt mounted   
   read-only (via fstab), and a root filesystem which also gets remounted   
   read-only after boot (via rc.local).  Plus, I'm behind a NAT, I don't   
   use dictionary passwords, and root logins are not allowed, whether it's   
   via the local console or via ssh.   
      
   I also run with custom permissions in msec.  I've got SysRq and   
   Ctrl+Alt+Del enabled, but other than that, there is no way an   
   unprivileged user account can shut down or reboot the system, and   
   suspend-to-disk/suspend-to-RAM is disabled.   
      
   It's a 64-bit machine and a 64-bit operating system, with 4 GiB of RAM.   
   Under normal circumstances, I would rarely ever hit swap, but it would   
   still happen on some occasions when moving large files around, so I've   
   dropped the swappiness to 10 nevertheless, so now I can do almost   
   everything without ever touching swap.  Actually, I haven't seen it hit   
   swap anymore since I dropped the swappiness.  And it all runs pretty   
   crispy. ;-)   
      
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