Mandriva 2006 (was Re:Idea on which Distros to support)

[Marc Lijour]

On Monday 17 October 2005 23:04, John Macdonald wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:39:43PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> > On October 17, 2005 13:28, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > >     I generally notice very little difference moving from one
> > > version to the next.
> >
> > I have noticed only improvements especially on desktop machines. The
> > version of KDE that came with 8.2 looks like it is out of the Stone
> > Age compared to the version in 2006. If you want modern versions of
> > Python, PostgreSQL, Apache, Qt, KDE, and various other packages, the
> > latest and greatest is bound to have those. You can certainly install
> > all that stuff from source in an older version of Mandrake but then
> > you no longer have Mandrake. You have a custom distro for which there
> > is one maintainer, you.
>
> You notice the difference much more clearly when you move back
> to an older version, far more than you notice the improvement
> moving forward.  You can get used to improvements incrementaly,
> but you lose all of them at once when you go back.
>
> I remember not seeing much improvement moving from a 68000 to
> a 68020 processor for a Unix system; but then after working
> on it for a few days and then going back to the 68000, the
> slowdown was painful.

Experience the fast boot in 2006. Amazing!
Plus the look is really something else, among the many good new things...

>
> I've noticed the same phenomenon many times since then.
>
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