[kwlug-disc] Mandria is over ...

[Gary Walsh]

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.
-- 
Gary

On May 26, 2015 11:07:29 PM EDT, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>For me, once I saw the light of .deb + central repositories, I never
>looked
>back ...
>
>On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gary Walsh <gwalsh at notw.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> --
>> Gary
>>
>> On May 26, 2015 9:50:42 PM EDT, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>> There are some Mandriva users on this list.
>>> I have not used them for some years, when they were still named
>Mandrake,
>>> before moving to Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Sad to see them go ...
>>>
>>> http://www.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5
>>>
>>
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