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    <B>P. Christeas</B> 
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<PRE>On Friday 01 October 2010, David W. Hodgins wrote:
&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> In my opinion, Magiea's primary market should be linux developers,
</I>
Yes and no.  I am a developer, using Mandriva all these years and want Mageia 
also to be a _developer friendly_ distribution. But not a /developer oriented/ 
like slackware or gentoo.

For that target I would make a wishlist:
 - Must be easy to keep in &quot;production&quot;. That is, allow us to work every day 
without major feature breakages. We want to develop our package, not be fixing 
the Linux installation all of our time.
 - Have all latest libs and packages, *available*. Not force us to use them by 
default, but have recent things at the repos, so that we can pick them to 
develop against.
 - Have minimal obtrusion from the desktop, yet be powerful. Think of the 
kde3,4 environment. We like the fact that we have a very rich text editor, 
many commands and utilities. But, all these shouldn't take more than 5% of our 
cpu, not take much memory. Because, our main work is *NOT* to search with 
nepomuk, or waste our resources on plasmoids. Our work is to make the package 
we are developing to compile, run, test etc. 
 - Be easy to report bugs, work with the main team.

I think Mandriva already was a good choice for the above wishlist. Keep that, 
please.

&gt;<i> I also think things like 3d, or &quot;Desktop Effects&quot; should be disabled by
</I>&gt;<i> default, as things like animating a window minimizing make the system
</I>&gt;<i> seem slow, even with good hardware.
</I>
Defaults is not an issue. A developer should be experienced enough to switch 
some things off and customize his system. As long as there *is* a switch for 
that (and not the &quot;you must use GL animations for your menu rendering&quot; 
mentality).



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