[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection

Thu Oct 14 09:28:38 CEST 2010

Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 05:16:39, Tux99 a écrit :
+> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Graham Lauder wrote:
+> 
+> > How many users does Mandriva have worldwide, compare that to the number
+> > of computer users and you will see that the "one size fits all" does not
+> > equal significant market share.
+> 
+> Mandriva is not a "one size fits all". It is the best Linux desktop
+> distro, but it's not the best choice as a server distro or for many
+> other uses.
+> The fact that it doesn't have more users is primarily due to the unfair
+> advantage that Windows has because it comes preinstalled on PCs.
+> 
+
+We have to separe MS market locking and Mandriva communication failure. When 
+bad news around Mandriva were there and when Mageia announces its fork, i've 
+read some (many ;) ) comments about how Mandriva is used in servers. Don't get 
+me wrong, i already knew that Mandriva could be used in servers. Anyway, you 
+can hardly find any information of this uses on Mandriva website, hardly no 
+study case is available on the same website that one could download. That's 
+the same for OEM installation in Brazil (or wherever), hardly no information 
+on that.
+
+Being the best linux distro is not enough nowadays, we must let it know widely 
+and do feel that Mageia is not yet another distribution among hundreds of 
+distribution. Mageia is your future distribution even if you don't know it yet 
+! :)
+
+Anyway, i don't think we can just transpose what's done for OOo to Mageia. OOo 
+just compete to MS Office, Mageia compete to hundreds of Linux Distribution, and 
+other OS, not quite the same scale.
+
+Olivier
+