[Mageia-discuss] Why Mageia isn't a "Lion Friendly" distribution?

Mon Dec 5 15:15:26 CET 2011

Am Montag, 5. Dezember 2011, 14:57:06 schrieb Luiz Alberto Saba:
+> Hi guys
+> 
+> Little time ago I bought a mac mini for use with my home theater system.
+> It does everything that I was waiting for.
+> HDMI output with audio (HD) & video, so I can connect to my denon
+> receiver etc...
+> The problem is: Lion can't "see" a share in my mageia machine.
+> Googling a little bit, I found that I need netatalk (which we DON'T
+> have) and a little xml for avahi (which we have).
+> Following the "pie recipe" I was able to share my Media disk (2TB) with
+> Lion.
+> Then I was wandering... Why not make mageia more "mac friendly"?
+> I think that it will be a good thing for mageia (nowadays almost
+> everyone has some apple device at home (iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac...))
+> Comments?
+
+Just file a rpm rquest at bugs.mageia.org ?
+
+If one of the packagers is interested and has the time, he will build it.
+I personally don't care because I seem not to be almost everybody having no 
+apple device and having no intent to ever buy one.
+I'm not about to give money to the worst patent troll out there...
+
+Oliver
+