On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Ah, shoot. Anyone have any details about this?<br>
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So mandriva has died? </blockquote><div><br>Not necessarily.<br><br>Forks are often a reaction to something.<br><br>If they have the support of most developers then the fork can supersede <br>the original.<br><br>This happened when Joomla was born from Mambo Server.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Will I be able to move to this new distro seamlessly? How seasoned are these folks? How stable will the distro be?<br>
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All I want is to pay $75-$200 a year and have my computers kept current. I'll pay more if I have to, I don't feel any impetus to pay less.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Remains to be seen how this Mandriva fork will pan out.<br>
<br>Disclosure: I abandoned Mandriva about 5 years ago for KDE Ubuntu and never looked back.<br>
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On 18/09/10 11:33 PM, Gary Walsh wrote:<br>
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Due to uncertainties surrounding the future of Mandriva, some former<br>
Mandriva employees and contributors, are making a new fork of the<br>
distribution. <a href="http://www.mageia.org/" target="_blank">http://www.mageia.org/</a> . As a long time Mandriva user, I<br>
am interested in how this will develop.<br>
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