Hi there!

I have been user of Mandriva since 9.1 and before user of SuSe (the original German) and RedHat (I began on Linux with 5.0). I'm not tech-savyy so I like Mandriva because of its common people orientation.

So I'm thinking if it's good to build an entire distribution from scratch. Would not be better to take one distro such as Fedora and then add what we can call "the common people layer" (DrakTools, Flash, Java, codecs, some software ...)? So the base system build (kernel, modules, patches, libs, dependencies ...) can be avoided and resources could be heading to the added value to the common people, the same added value that made Mandriva a great distro!

I'm on economics and not on computer science so I can not help with this, but if some kind of advice is needed on financial, perfomance or social responsability reporting I could help :-)

All the best,
Jesús


2010/9/19 Anne nicolas <ennael1@gmail.com>
>> It might be good to invite Gaël Duval, creator of Mandrake Linux, to
>> Mageia board. At least as a principial gesture showing difference
>> betwen MandrakeSoft attitude and Mageia.
>>
>> Just to remember history, few links:
>>
>> http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/25171-mandriva-linux-fires-its-founder
>> Mandriva Linux fires its founder
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gael_Duval
>> Gaël Duval
>>
>> Harijs (AKA hbush)
>> Mandrake/Mandriva user since v.5
>>
> Good idea !
> I had  too but  I did not dare.
>
Hi there

Just a quick notice as written in first announcement. We (people who
launched that project) are very careful about what we would like this
project: for sure it will not be agresssive towards Mandriva, no reason
for this and it cannot help. We think there are good things in Mandriva
Linux and some to be changed. Do it better and in a different way
implying all community :). Everything that happened in Mandriva life is
past and does not have anything to do with current starting project.

Cheers !

Anne
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