2010/9/26 Sascha Schneider <schneider@zawm.be>

I totally agree to that and I hope Mageia will make this happen.

But I also agree that at this time Mageia has to saddle as a fork, structures have to be build, etc.

Plus, we wouldn't use Mandriva if we don't like the way it works. So no need to change to deb or make Gnome the primer Desktop Env. or stuff like that

My dream would be a very User and Admin friendly Disto

One Installer CD for Desktop Dualarch - metapacks for the desktop env
One Installer CD for a Serverversion inkl. LXDE + MMC-base and metapaks for some spezial apps inkl. the MMC modules (and pulse)
One Installer CD for a Virtualserver using f.e. OpenVZ and a MMC based webui and some community templates

In my opinion with this simple trippelisation you can arrange all kind of home, business, school, multimedia, netbook ... structures you ever imagine all with one Distro.

That's very, very near of my own vision for a "perfect" Linux OS. We have the big advantage that everything yet still not done. And we count with tools (delta-rpms, metapackages) to build a core system with "add-ons" (like server packages, desktop packages...) improving modularity and system organization.

At the same time, i'm aware that it can be a too big break from the mageia's origins (in the meaning of system's scheme and organization). So, if we can progressively drive mageia to this new scheme sounds reasonable too.

Cheers.