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

Sat Oct 2 15:49:01 CEST 2010

2010/10/1 Sinner from the Prairy <sinnerbofh at gmail.com>:
+> Fabrice Facorat wrote:
+
+
+> But the ones they have: work great, are integrated with the rest of the
+> ecosystem, are user-friendly and they are aesthetically pleasant.
+>
+> By focusing on 90% of specs and getting them to be 95% perfect, instead of
+> having 100% of specs and getting them to be just 50% workable, regular
+> people (95% of the population) like their products.
+
+you're 100% right
+
+> Apple's approach mimics the Unix philosophy (every small tool covers a task
+> extremely well, and integrates with the rest of the Unix system): every
+> single technical bullet point included does a task extremely well with the
+> rest of the tools and look'n'feel.
+>
+> Mandriva tries that, with look'n'feel consistent on MCC, KDE and Gnome.
+> draketools work on TUI or GUI. They work well.
+
+some tools does not work correctly however and are buggy
+
+> IMHO, Mageia should improve on Mandriva, not try to get just "bullet points"
+> on what our distro does.
+>
+> Let's pick our battles, go the Unix way, make sure what Mageia does, it does
+> very well. And as Linux is Linux is Linux is Linux, it will do everything
+> else as well (and the kitchen sink).
+
++1
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