[Mageia-dev] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Fri Oct 1 14:11:48 CEST 2010

> Substance counts a lot more than appearance to me.
+
+Of course, but we must not be "closed minds". Yes, maybe from the
+developers POV or from advanced user POV or some "geek" POV, the
+appearance isn't too important.
+
+But common people (and my self) like "pretty things". Even when the
+eye-candy isn't related with if distro "works fine", why we should be
+ugly? Why can't we have pretty tools that looks and works nice? You
+think that MacOS is the "coolest" OS just because it's unix or because
+it works fine? No. People (the common people like some one's sister)
+love it because it's beautiful, looks great and they can tell friends
+"look at my screen... nice! I'm cool because I have a Mac!"
+
+If the only important thing is being unix and working fine, why Mac
+users don't use Solaris?
+
+Since I'm with Linux / Mandriva I remember talks about how slow is
+Perl and how slow are MDV tools and why not to use some better
+programing language (I think someone said "C" once?). So, if someone
+says "we must change something to be better", please, don't say "NO"
+in the beginning without any chance.
+
+IMHO that we're in a special moment. A moment where we must look the
+brightside of the situation: we're starting. This is the moment when
+we must think and evaluate in the most crazy ideas, the most radical
+ideas.
+
+Because once you started to roll, changes must be made one bit at the
+time. But if we didn't start, we can say "this isn't useful anymore;
+let's change it / rewrite it / leave it forever".
+
+We're forking MDV, yes. But MDV shouldn't be seen as some kind of
+"sanctuary" where "things can't be touched" (not even the "holly"
+MCC). Personally, I joined Mageia because I believe we can make things
+better than Mandriva did. I won't look to the past. I want to look to
+the future. I'm not afraid of changes.
+
+Cheers!
+
+
+Gustavo Giampaoli (aka tavillo1980)
+