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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia logo proposals and selection</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Sun Oct 17 21:18:59 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Le jeudi 14 octobre 2010 11:10:33, J.A. Magallón a écrit :
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</I>><i> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:37:29 +1300, Graham Lauder <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">yorick_ at openoffice.org</A>> wrote:
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</I>><i> > On Thursday 14 Oct 2010 14:18:02 Tux99 wrote:
</I>><i> > > I'm with wobo and Margot here, I fear this 'targeting' will simply result
</I>><i> > > in restricting our potential user-base (i.e. rather than attracting more
</I>><i> > > users it will turn off many users).
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > It is a well known fact, that you cannot be all things to all people, to try
</I>><i> > to do that would end up being everything to noone. I would prefer to be the
</I>><i> > best we can be to those who grow to love the brand.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Wrong, from my POV.
</I>><i> Its Linux. Linux has it all. You just have to choose what you want in
</I>><i> your install, desktop software, server software or both.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> An example. Our admins at the university choose CentOS as their distro
</I>><i> for labs and servers. CentOS is marketed as a RHEL derivative, focused
</I>><i> on server and stability. Why CentOS ? Its RHEL but with free
</I>><i> support. What about desktop software ? Its generally outated. What
</I>><i> about HW support ? Same. CentOS people patches their soft, but what
</I>><i> do you prefer, a home patched ancient kernel or an updated one with the real
</I>><i> official and tested fixes ? If they wanted the best of both worlds
</I>><i> they could choose Mandriva for labs desktops and CentOS for servers,
</I>><i> if they are so fond of CentOS as server. But noooone wants to admin two
</I>><i> linux distros.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But me, I have always intalled Mandriva both for desktops and for servers.
</I>><i> Reasons:
</I>><i> - I had the best hw support
</I>><i> - I had updated software
</I>><i> - It is stable
</I>><i> - I could use the SAME distro (even the same CD) to install a desktop
</I>><i> box for development, for office work, or a server with samba and ldap
</I>><i> and apache, or a HPC cluster with openmpi.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Why ? I know Mandriva, I know it has all the soft that I need for all
</I>><i> > fields, and yes, ONE SIZE FITS ALL my meeds.
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Exactly the same here :
- Mandriva on workstation
- Mandriva on servers
- Mandriva at home for everyday use, gaming...
Regards
Samuel
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