Post by AragornOn Sunday 09 Oct 2016 05:35, Doug Laidlaw conveyed the following to
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Post by Doug LaidlawPost by Doug LaidlawPost by Doug LaidlawA fork of Fedora from England, so not a fork of Mandriva. One man's
personal distro with his choice of packages from Fedora's "PLF", the
ones excluded from Fedora itself. Now at Release 24, so it must be
popular. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09574 Live DVD looks good,
but I haven't installed it yet. Generally I can't come to grips
with Fedora.
It is very user-friendly, once I get rid of the Gnome3 desktop.
No, it isn't. It is Windows for Linux users.
<sarcasm>
But but but, I thought Windows was so much better, Doug? Wasn't
Windows what you were looking for, then?
</sarcasm>
Post by Doug LaidlawThe updater stopped if it lost the focus
Updating required a reboot, so the updates could be installed prior to
login, a la Windows.
There was a Windows-style dialog to collect email sources, but Heaven
knows how I am supposed to access them!
I won't be moving from Mageia. I will still look at OpenMandriva, if
they ever get it to work properly!
OpenMandriva is using Mageia as its upstream now. But if you want an
alternative to Mageia that is still Mandrake/Mandriva-based in terms of
their tools, then check out PCLinuxOS.
It's been a while since I've run PCLinuxOS, but my experiences with it
were pretty good. They still use .rpm packages, but with Debian's
package management system and the excellent Synaptic package manager
GUI. It also comes with all of the familiar "Drak Tools", including
msec, diskdrake, XFdrake, userdrake et al.
Oh, and it's still systemd-free. Now there's a bonus if there ever was
one! :p
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= Aragorn =
_Real_ Windows is O.K. Neither is "better." Trying to run a
Windows program
on Linux, or a Linux program in Windows, is a compromise, and it
always
will be. Pinnerite can't run his business without Windows.
Neither could I,
when I was in business.
Yes, I downloaded PCLinuxOS, the release before the one bliss reviewed.
I went to it today. See my comments at the end of bliss's thread.
I am sure
that Texstar can do better than what I saw. The updates issue has
nothing
to do with Synaptic. Mint uses Synaptic, and its updates come
down. There
is a bug in Mint 17's updater, that regularly produces error
messages. It is
still there in the current release 18. I installed two versions
of Skywave Linux,
an Ubuntu clone loaded with radio communication programs. It
doesn't like my
video card, and there seems to be no way to start it in "simple
graphics" mode,
as I could with Chapeau, or just about any other distro. Only
Mageia has the lot.
I only hope that Mageia puts out something soon, before all its
followers look
elsewhere.
Doug.