<html><head></head><body>I have never found Mageia's repository lacking. I only occasionally find that some new or obscure package to be missing. RPM packages are every bit as good as .deb.<br>
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Gary<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 26, 2015 11:07:29 PM EDT, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">For me, once I saw the light of .deb + central repositories, I never looked back ...<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gary Walsh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca" target="_blank">gwalsh@notw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Mageia is the successor to Mandriva and is going strong. Mandrake/Mandriva and now Mageia has been my main distro since around '98. I sometimes use Ubuntu derived distros, but I have never found them to be as good as Mageia. <br /><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Gary</font></span><span class=""><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On May 26, 2015 9:50:42 PM EDT, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">There are some Mandriva users on this list.<br />I have not used them for some years, when they were still named Mandrake, before moving to Ubuntu.<br /><br />Sad to see them go ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5</a><br clear="all" /></div></blockquote></div></span></div><br />_______________________________________________<br />
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