Commentaires sur : Which future for my Mandriva ? http://olivier-mejean.fr/WordPress/?p=142 high-tech, actus, infos, commentaires, etc. Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Par : Matt http://olivier-mejean.fr/WordPress/?p=142&cpage=1#comment-424 Matt Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:04:16 +0000 http://olivier-mejean.fr/WordPress/?p=142#comment-424 I think too many are burying Mandriva before it's dead. Have you read this? https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60936#c11 What Laprevote says makes a lot of sense. There is no market for Linux desktops in Europe, we've known it for a long time and from a financial perspective it has been a disaster to have kept so many developers in France when the same work could be done for a fraction of the price overseas. It's not an easy decision to accept for everyone involved but this is the sanest one in a long time. It's either that or they kill the desktop version, it's really a shame they haven't done it 3 years ago because by now they would have been much closer to balancing the books while having all the overseas developers up to speed. I'm not saying Mandriva will make it but at last this is a step in the right direction if the distro is to survive. One feels sorry for the french developers of course, they deserved so much better given the quality of their work. It will be a bumpy ride for the distro which may still die in the end but at least it's not the last official release. As for a fork there's already Unity Linux, it would be a lot of waste if the efforts were duplicated. I think too many are burying Mandriva before it’s dead. Have you read this? https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60936#c11
What Laprevote says makes a lot of sense. There is no market for Linux desktops in Europe, we’ve known it for a long time and from a financial perspective it has been a disaster to have kept so many developers in France when the same work could be done for a fraction of the price overseas. It’s not an easy decision to accept for everyone involved but this is the sanest one in a long time. It’s either that or they kill the desktop version, it’s really a shame they haven’t done it 3 years ago because by now they would have been much closer to balancing the books while having all the overseas developers up to speed. I’m not saying Mandriva will make it but at last this is a step in the right direction if the distro is to survive. One feels sorry for the french developers of course, they deserved so much better given the quality of their work. It will be a bumpy ride for the distro which may still die in the end but at least it’s not the last official release.

As for a fork there’s already Unity Linux, it would be a lot of waste if the efforts were duplicated.

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