Mandriva is a good distro, but good luck keeping it up to date.
I dont like the fact that Mandriva has no community repositories, instead you have to use cooker for every update that would take ages to get updated on the main server
OK, so MS is the public and Linux is for techies and Apple? We use apple here in the studio and not ever changing. So what if the public likes easy systems? to us apple is the #1 ease of use, do I whine about that? No! Listen folks, a computer is a toaster, on busy, off, that’s it.
About Mandriva, excellent crystal clear type, fonts onscreen. Suse, a trainwreck of fonts display. Fedora also clear fonts but a pest with hourly upgrades.I design type and will not tolerate unreadable type.
And Ubuntu, the guy in charge is paying all the freight, how long will that last? I read somewhere in African ubuntu means free beer!
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Well it has community repositories MIB - Mandriva Italia Backports
MIB - Mandriva Italia Backports • Visualizza forum - English here you can post request for sofware.
There are also the official backports repos which provide some new software. And there are testing repos but I’ve never used them so I’m not sure what they have in:D
Still, to create a backport in openSUSE everything I have to do is
osc linkpac openSUSE:Factory <package> home:RedDwarf:backports
and the openSUSE Build Service will automatically compile the package for me. And I just need to do this once, after that every time the package is updated in Factory it will be also updated in my backports repo.
It’s difficult to compete against that.
- The Build service supports Mandriva.
- Mandriva has shorter release schedule that’s why they don’t need updating to new versions the major things-like the DE. oS has longer RSchedule thats why it needs to have more repos for new packages, but if you stay with the main repos you won’t have new software;)