From: doug@douglaidlaw.net   
      
   Vince Coen wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   My experience of Open-Mandriva is about the same.  I looked at it again   
   today.  It is based on ROSA, not the old Mandriva 10, and does seem in need   
   of updating.   
      
   Mageia is the natural successor to Mandriva.  It has the same team of   
   developers that Mandriva dispensed with.  All the familiar tools are there   
   (including the updates icon,) and the look is still like Mandriva 10.  The   
   old PLF is now called Tainted.  DistroWatch ranks it about 6th, and reviews   
   are consistently favourable.  Its main problem is developers.  They are a   
   small team, and need all the help they can get.   
      
   I have no idea what Lx stands for.  My guess is that it is an abbreviation   
   of Linux.  That matches the lower-case 'x'.   
      
   Doug.   
      
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