Note this blog post of mine (and the date) and this announcement from Mageia.
No more left to say.
Showing posts with label mandriva. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mandriva. Show all posts
2010/09/21
About Mandriva
This post is about my own opinion on the whole Mandriva issue.
(for the Italian version, keep scrolling)
I think that putting up a forked project for the "community" edition of Mandriva (Mageia) is good. This should become what Fedora is for Redhat, a community-driven distribution, high on Mandriva standards and willfull to embrace new technologies in Cooker.
The company should leverage Mageia by producing a derived distribution from the stable version, including former One live editions, and selling powerpacks. From the solid base, they should expand and integrate the Enterprise Editions
Having both Mageia and Mandriva, the community should try to integrate both distribution to work with binary packages in the contrib, plf and mib repositories, so you should have binary compatibility in the stable Mageia version and in Mandriva. Projects like Codeina should go on and simply just work.
We will see if the sinergy will work correctly as I hope. In the meantime, having a backup project like Mageia, will easy the transition for many users, including myself. For now, I'm postponing the migration to CentOS as it seemed so obvious to do it just a few days ago.
(for the Italian version, keep scrolling)
The Fork
I think that putting up a forked project for the "community" edition of Mandriva (Mageia) is good. This should become what Fedora is for Redhat, a community-driven distribution, high on Mandriva standards and willfull to embrace new technologies in Cooker.
The Company
The company should leverage Mageia by producing a derived distribution from the stable version, including former One live editions, and selling powerpacks. From the solid base, they should expand and integrate the Enterprise Editions
The Community
Having both Mageia and Mandriva, the community should try to integrate both distribution to work with binary packages in the contrib, plf and mib repositories, so you should have binary compatibility in the stable Mageia version and in Mandriva. Projects like Codeina should go on and simply just work.
The Future
We will see if the sinergy will work correctly as I hope. In the meantime, having a backup project like Mageia, will easy the transition for many users, including myself. For now, I'm postponing the migration to CentOS as it seemed so obvious to do it just a few days ago.
2009/05/04
Updated Mandriva 2009 to spring
The update did complete successfully, but only after manual intervention.
The update process looped on trying to install mplayer (mandriva version) while it conflicted with mplayer plf version. I had to remove the mplayer plf rpm manually from the console before the script went on.
When the notebook rebooted for the new kernel, X did not start; but mandriva offered a text mode dialog to reconfigure (and test) it.
I still have to see a linux distro upgrade flawlessly; but this time mandriva quite did it, if I did not tinker with plf, everything should go on in an acceptable way.
So the vote on the update process is 7/10.
The update process looped on trying to install mplayer (mandriva version) while it conflicted with mplayer plf version. I had to remove the mplayer plf rpm manually from the console before the script went on.
When the notebook rebooted for the new kernel, X did not start; but mandriva offered a text mode dialog to reconfigure (and test) it.
I still have to see a linux distro upgrade flawlessly; but this time mandriva quite did it, if I did not tinker with plf, everything should go on in an acceptable way.
So the vote on the update process is 7/10.
2009/05/03
Upgrading Mandriva 2009 to spring
Tonight I started the automatic (i.e. graphical) upgrade of my notebook to mandriva 2009.1 (a.k.a 2009 Spring)...
More info to follow after upgrade.
More info to follow after upgrade.
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