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OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released – OpenMandriva (www.openmandriva.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

How do the 'offspring' of Mandrake/Mandriva compare to one another? IIRC, there's ALT, Mageia, OpenMandriva, PCLinuxOS and ROSA.

I've also come to the understanding that what set Mandrake apart from its peers was its polish and user-friendliness. Which, harbored a great community back in the days. Currently, however, this role is fulfilled by distros like Linux Mint. Furthermore, most distros are relatively straightforward anyways. So, my other questions would be:

Could the argument be made that Linux Mint is the actual spiritual successor to Mandrake?
Are the Mandrake-offspring's most compelling raison d'être that they're Mandrake's offspring?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what would happen if this amount of effort and persistence was put into something more useful.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good question. Delete your account and see what happens!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Why the hate?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can someone ELI5 what OpenMandriva is?

In what place does it stand in contrast to Fedora, OpenSUS, and all the Enterprise Linux forks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Mandriva was a Linux distribution that went out of business years ago. OpenMandriva is one of the projects that rose from its ashes with some of the same personnel and code base. It is an independent (not a fork) and community run distribution that, I think, does quite a lot with very limited resources.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Mandriva itself was an attempted resurrection of the old Mandrake distribution (which was sorta the Ubuntu of its day). Really hoping OpenMandriva manages to make a go of it considering the ringer those folks have been through.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Mandrake has to be the funniest name ever

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can't answer your question unfortunately but inclusion of OpenSUS in it deserves an immediate upvote.