On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:48:25 AM Tim Edwards wrote:
On Sep 5 ’11, "Roger Luedecke" <roger.luedecke@gmail.com> 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 Thats what I figured. I have to wonder though, as rough as 11.4 was out the door, do we really have the resources to maintain so much in our distro? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org