From: VBCoen@gmail.com   
      
   Hello Markus!   
      
   Saturday December 12 2015 09:19, Markus R. Kessler wrote to All:   
      
    > I've played around a little with open-Suse, where the files like   
    > mencoder, dvdbackup and so on, the files we know as belonging to the   
    > PLF / Zarb repository and its mirrors, are provided as "community   
    > repositories".   
      
    > Well, this means, that such packages still exist and are adapted to   
    > fit to new OS versions. Now I'd like to try some steps with   
    > open-Mandriva 2014, but there are some questions open, not knowing if   
    > it makes sense to completely move to that distro:   
      
    > # 1   
      
    > It seems that there's no newer version out than 2014?   
    > It looks like bugfixes are only provided via "updates" directories,   
    > and you have to install the old stuff from DVD first and then   
    > overwrite it?   
      
      
   I did try Open-Mandriva earlier this year but the installs had a few issues   
   and caused problems on the boot drive that holds other distros (Mageia).   
      
   In the end having trying to fix it without success I just deleted it.   
      
   It does not appear to have full support / updates working to any useful   
   state.   
      
   I updated Mageia to v4 and now v5 - a lot more stable and more importantly   
   supported with updates and fixes.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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