On Friday 17 March 2006 06:27 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > Damn, I have been here since the 6.X days and hate to see this happen. I > sub'd to ULTEO and will watch that but I guess PCLINUXOS it is, or SUSE > not sure just now. My VIP membership only has 4 months left unless they > cancel it. Dennis M. Linux user# 180842
It's a shame to see Mandy going to the dogs, but then we did see it coming didn't we? It's the ongoing battle of economics. Suse now being Novell doesn't really cut it because of just that IMO. Part (a major part) of my commmittance to FOSS is that I hope it will help bring about a better world by offering a choice to those that would otherwise be hopelessly enslaved by proprietary software àla MSoft and prolly Google in the future. Mandy was just right in it's mix of community-base and bussiness but apparrently that's changing now ... ! Duval's planned ULTEO liveCD distro might be interesting, seeing as he was the designer of "Move" and "One" but he will have to create a new community around it from zilch ....... so I subbed too. ;-) Luckily (for me) I've always used Slackware for myself (especially servers)and it's still alive. Aside from a financial contribution I never felt the need to get on to their mailing lists or IRC channels, though. It's the little people in my house that want 3D and stuff for their amusement and those straying of Msoft that want all their hardware to work eventually. I strayed to PCLinuxOS last year, just prior to the 2006 release but wasn't really that impressed. The OS, once installed has a rigid feel due to the fact that you're stuck on the initial hardware you installed on (or reinstall every time) and needs a broadband internet connection to be customized or changed easily. -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
