From: VBCoen@gmail.com   
      
   Hello Doug!   
      
   Friday October 10 2014 23:42, Doug Laidlaw wrote to All:   
      
    > And I can't get the LiveDVD to boot beyond the bar when the desktop   
    > starts. It stays constant, then the screen turns black with a cursor   
    > visible.  I burned the DVD twice. In fairness to them, we have the   
    > best of their developers, and they had to start from scratch, largely.   
      
    > In reply to your last line, yesterday I found an old blog post by a   
    > user who had advanced from Ubuntu to Arch then Mandriva 2010.  With   
    > time it became like "the girl next door."  Then he found Mageia, and   
    > thought he had "the girl next door" again.  That was pretty accurate   
    > back then.  Now OpenMandriva are going their own way, and becoming   
    > exclusively KDE.   
      
   I installed it to a spare (test) partition on my SSD and after install it   
   stops with a q-dbus issue that I have not been able to resolve when   
   attempting to log in to the system.   
      
   Vince   
      
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