From: orlandini@tesre.bo.cnr.it   
      
   Il Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:13:25 -0800, Karl Dalen ha scritto:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Also, does anyone know how long will the package repositories for MD2010   
   > be maintained ?   
      
   I switched to PCLinuxOS and I am very happy of my choice.  It has   
   everything of the old Mandriva plus an incredible support from the   
   forum... if you need a package not available, just ask and if there are   
   not dependency problems you will have it soon released.   
      
   It is not 'cut-edge', but it is very realiable... everything works!   
      
   Keep in mind that it is a rolling distribution so there is not a   
   particular version (like 2011, 2013, etc) but it is continuosly updated   
   (so you do not need to re-install everything every year or so).  It is   
   available both for 32bit and 64bit systems.  Info at http://   
   www.pclosos.com   
      
   Ciao, Mauro   
      
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