From: grimble@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 15/11/13 22:13, Karl Dalen wrote:   
   > What Linux distributions have you switched over to now when Mandriva has   
   ended its desktop distribution? Any suggestions would be appreciated.   
   > I have been a Mandrake/Mandriva user since 2001 and on my desktop and laptop   
   I currently run Mandriva 2010. I have to buy a new motherboard for my home   
   built system and probably will have to switch over to a newer Linux kernel   
   because of newer hardware.   
   > Is there any distribution similar to Mandriva? In particular, I liked the   
   urpmi method for package distribution and some of the interfaces in MDC. I'm   
   using KDE.   
   >   
   I have been following OpenMandriva by running it under VirtualBox on my   
   current Mandriva 2011.0 desktop. They've issued a RC1 version ( I'm   
   still using the Beta x86_64 version). The development team needs to   
   sharpen up a bit - they recently managed to delete the previous version   
   of urpmi before offering to install the new version (how?), but in   
   general I would be happy to install it on this laptop. There are   
   problems with versions of some software - I couldn't run the latest   
   version of BOINC under the Beta, but I feel sure that it will provide a   
   satisfactory successor to Mandriva 2011.0 when that sort of thing gets   
   sorted. The Beta was not a development system, because I had to install   
   basic packages such as make, libtool, pkg-config and then compile lots   
   of stuff, so I shall be waiting a week or three before committing one of   
   my machines to it.   
   Overall, it looks a positive step to retain my favourite type of distro.   
      
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   Grimble   
   Registered Linux User #450547   
   Running KDE 4.6.5  on 2.6.39.4-5.1-desktop kernel.   
   Mandriva Linux release 2011.0 (Official) for x86_64   
      
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