Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

["Tim Edwards" <tkedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 5 ’11, "Roger Luedecke" <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Taking Notes from Mandriva
>
>       I recently caught wind that a new version of Mandriva was released. 
> Having 
> checked out the last version on the advice of a good friend, and having
> been 
> underwhelmed by it I took a look again to see if I could see the magic he 
> spoke of to me. Overall this was indeed a much better release, and were
> it not 
> for a few show-stopping bugs it may very well have remained on my beloved 
> netbook.
>       One interesting thing of note is that Mandriva has discontinued their 
> multiple versions. They have even abandoned the Gnome environment in
> favor 
> of KDE.

The reason for this is that the Mandriva company is doing quite bad
financially, and as far as I know always has. So a few months ago they
got rid of a large part of the paid dev team (who have now setup a fork
called Mageia), leaving the Mandriva project really lacking in
resources. That's why they've removed most of the GNOME packages from
the distro.

I used Mandriva for a long time on my desktop or laptop, but I switched
to Opensuse since they just didn't seem to have the resources to keep as
up-to-date, polished and with enough packages as the other main Linux
distro's.

Tim
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