As a VERY long time user of Mandrake/Mandriva, I've been following news, reviews, etc about Mageia but still haven't decided to "jump ship". I think my main problems are: 1 - the hassle of making the move 2 - the fear (maybe ungrounded) that some applications, drivers, etc may be missing 3 - the hope (probably mis-guided) that the forks will re-unite Any thoughts, suggestions?
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:46:52 +0200 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > replying to myself, I'd like to note that someone asked me to point > out the benefits of the Mageia Linux distribution. Well, for once > this message was primarily intended for people who already use it, > but just in case: here is some info about Mageia. > > About Mageia: > ------------- > > Mageia is a community fork of Mandriva Linux, which in turn is the > new name of Mandrake Linux. See: > > * http://www.mageia.org/en/ > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia > > Mageia is currently the No. 2 distribution in popularity on > DistroWatch: > > http://distrowatch.com/ > > Benefits of Mageia: > ------------------- > > #. A user-friendly graphical installer. > > #. Some convenient GUI system maintenance tools. > > #. A wide selection of packages split into "core", "tainted" and > "non-free". > > #. A lot of glue and integration - components are made to work with > one another. > > #. Has a release every 9 months or so (so-far Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 > were released, Mageia 3 is in the works) and Mageia Cauldron, which > is a rolling distribution that stabilises into the next release. > > #. Has versions for i586, x86-64 and an upcoming version for ARM. One > can configure and install some 32-bit packages on the x86-64 version. > > #. Actively developed by the community and non-commercial. > > #. Stable and secure, for desktop and server. > > #. Contains up-to-date versions of the upstream packages. > > --------- > > Hope that clarifies things. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:09:20 +0200 > Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:58:52 +0200 > > From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> > > To: mageia-disc...@mageia.org > > Cc: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-...@mageia.org> > > Subject: Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > if you are a resident of Israel and would like to have an Israeli > > mirror of Mageia, please let http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ and me > > know. So far, the administrator of this mirror > > ( mirrormas...@isoc.org.il ) believes there is too little demand > > for it, and I would like to show him that this is not the case. > > > > Regards, > > > > Shlomi Fish > > > > > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by Claws Mail 3.7.9 - KDE 4.6.5 - LINUX Mandriva 2011.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
