<div dir="ltr"><div>I flip-flopped over the years trying a lot of distributions (even Corel Linux at one point) starting with Slackware 97 and sticking with Ubuntu-based variations for the past several years. I bought Mandrake back when they sold boxed editions. I also bought SuSE 9.2 (just after Novell bought it). I enjoyed both distributions when I used them. I remember loving SuSE Professional because the physical documentation was extremely good, but when 9.3 came out it took more resources than my notebook could handle. At that point I think I switched to Fedora Core. Paul N. converted me to Debian-based distributions when I started working with him on <a href="http://wclp.sourceforge.net">wclp.sourceforge.net</a>. I really haven't looked back from Debian-based distributions since. <br><br></div>If Ubuntu forks away from Debian I might look again at pure Debian or some variant. Sad to see Mandriva go, but they always seemed to be in trouble. Like many I'm surprised they lasted so long.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:16 AM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I don't know about Debian, but I'm really excited about the possibility of a Canonical IPO.<br><br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 26 May 2015 at 23:44 William Park <<a href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You know, pretty soon, Debian will go out of business.<br>
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:07:29PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
> For me, once I saw the light of .deb + central repositories, I never looked<br>
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> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gary Walsh <<a href="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca" target="_blank">gwalsh@notw.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > Mageia is the successor to Mandriva and is going strong. Mandrake/Mandriva<br>
> > and now Mageia has been my main distro since around '98. I sometimes use<br>
> > Ubuntu derived distros, but I have never found them to be as good as<br>
> > Mageia.<br>
> > --<br>
> > Gary<br>
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> > On May 26, 2015 9:50:42 PM EDT, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> There are some Mandriva users on this list.<br>
> >> I have not used them for some years, when they were still named Mandrake,<br>
> >> 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>
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