Recommended Linux Distribution for Current Mandriva 2011.0 User

[Michael Hill]

Hi Brad,

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Brad Fonseca <linuxbrad-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 1. What is this group's opinion of either Open Mandriva or Mageia? Would it
> make sense to move to one of these distributions seeing as they are forks of
> a distribution I am very familiar with?

I like Mageia. I've never used Mandriva, but picked up Mageia pretty
quickly as the third RPM-based distro I've used. I have it
dual-booting on my laptop with openSUSE, and have installed it there
as well as inside GNOME Boxes at least ten times without a hitch.

I gave it a try nearly two years ago when it promised the most timely
release of the upstream GNOME packages, because the maintainer of
those packages is a member of the GNOME release team. (I've since been
told it's a KDE-based distro, but I've never tried that flavour.) I
run the unstable version, called Cauldron, and my only (minor)
frustration is that Cauldron is frozen for a week or two as a release
approaches.

Mike
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