I could not tell if my first message to this forum posted
Dear rpm5 fans, and users, I am barely an intermediate Linux desktop user. I have been using ROSA LXQt R9 for about 10 months doing novice stuff, ( only about 2 hours per day ) Tonight, 12-20-17, my rpm updater updated rpm5 to a later version, which I can only assume is the latest stable version ( 5.4.1, I think ). I assume that someone at rpm5 is responsible, and want to share my appreciation. I probably have about 600 man-hours of usage on ROSA doing novice household task - surfing the web, playing FreeCell and Mahjongg, sending and receiving Gmail, reading the news on various web-pages, typing letters, opening PDF files, via wi-fi and on a rare occasion with ethernet. Prior to using ROSA, I spent 4 months on Mageia 6 ( while it was in development ), but they use that other rpm platform. I had distro-hopped prior to all of that on about 10 popular distros, and even TrueOS ( FreeBSD ), and all in all have about 1,200 man-hours of experience using household software on Linux, much of which is watching YouTube videos about Linux distros. I plan to install OpenMandriva as my only operating system and spend a few weeks or months or years in that. It is definitely not clear to any user why they should choose an rpm5 based distro or which one to choose if they want rpm5. I want to learn all about it. I have read documentation on the web, but it is so way out-dated, or even at best a year old. The rpm4 folks claim that DNF 2.0 is the best thing since sliced-bread. What is up with that ?? I have not yet used DNF. I have barely used urpmi a few times. Thank you for your time. David Locklear Arcola, Texas U.S.A.
