From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 12/03/2014 07:45 AM, Markus R. Kessler wrote:   
   > Bit Twister wrote:   
   >   
   >> [...]   
   >   
   >> Can not help on Mandriva. I gave it up and went with Mageia.   
   >   
   > Hi!   
   >   
   > The reason behind opening a new discussion is, that I also tried newer   
   > versions of Mandriva, except Open Mandriva. I didn't check if this one   
   > works fine now, but Mageia which I use on some machines has flaws   
   > which make it hard to work with. For instance, on notebooks the screen   
   > resolution in text mode (CTRL-ALT-F1..6) is set to max, regardless what   
   > has been set in grub. Maybe this is being set within initrd.   
   >   
   > After all, for working I still use Mandriva 2009.1 with security   
   > patches overall (kernel, shell, ...) to work safely, but I can see the   
   > limits of such an outdated system.   
   >   
   > So, I'm looking around which OS could be my next one, and also, which   
   > surface fits my needs. KDE4 and above has tons of whistles and bells   
   > which makes every box slow, and Gnome is meanwhile (sorry for writing)   
   > even more annoying than Windows.   
   > So, finally I found to Xfce which can be configured in the way that it   
   > behaves and feels like KDE3.5 or Gnome 2.   
   >   
   > I found a "PC-Welt"-dvd from year 2011 which provides some favourite   
   > distros like Mandriva, Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu to try out without   
   > installing and looking around.   
   >   
   > Well, though 2011 is not decades ago, Ubuntu ("Xubuntu") for instance,   
   > could not be updated any more. There was no access to any update repo.   
   > For experiments, I had to download the whole iso for the current   
   > version, and so I wonder if this is the case with systems like (Open)   
   > Mandriva, Mageia etc, too?   
   >   
   > What I'm looking for is a "long term" OS which does not need to be   
   > installed every year, but rather can be updated as long as possible to   
   > keep it safe, and have a box which you can work with.   
   >   
   > Is this the case with Mageia? Mandriva?   
   > Can Xfce be selected as desktop?   
   > Any other distro recommended?   
   >   
   > Any hints and opinions highly appreciated!   
   >   
   > Thanks, best regards,   
   >   
   > Markus   
   >   
   >   
   	The distributions you want to look at are Scientific Linux and CentOS.   
      Both have long term support and both are derived from   
   Red Hat Enterprise sources.  I took a long look at SL recently and   
   found it rather stodgy.   
   	   
   	bliss   
      
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