[Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 EOL.

Sun Dec 2 13:14:32 CET 2012

On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:32:41 +0000
+Robert Wood <robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk> wrote:
+> FWIW, I agree wholeheartedly with having a longer support time. Getting 
+> Mageia 1 right on my laptop was a long and painful process; I feel I've 
+> only just got it going (OK, it's a year down the line really) and I have 
+> to go through it all again in a few weeks. I accept it might be much 
+> easier because the kernel improves at light speed, but it would much 
+> rather not have to do it for a while!
+> 
+> I run Mageia 2 on  my desktop and the one and [from my perspective] the 
+> only thing that is better about it is GIMP 2.8. I miss nothing 
+> whatsoever other than that. Even if it was two years rather than 
+> eighteen months it would be great.
+
+As a different data point, I still use Mageia 1 (mainly because I'm
+happy with Gnome 2 and don't want to switch to hell), but I'm ok with
+Mageia 1 being EOL'ed. I think the developers would better spend their
+time concentrating on making a polished, high-quality Mageia 3 (and
+then I can install it and switch to XFCE :-)).
+
+Regards
+
+Antoine.
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