Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux
Posted Jan 21, 2007 21:27 UTC (Sun) by
gfranken (subscriber, #22822)
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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux by moxfyre
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Here comes the Spring: a new life cycle for Mandriva Linux
Well, the first 2007 release was not good. You had to be a private
detective to get the repositories configured for urpmi to work correctly.
In fact, the version of the updater in the 2007.0 release was buggy and
didn't work. Turns out (near as I can figure) that the Mandriva developer
responsible for the updater went on vacation right before the 2007.0
release. He didn't return until just before the freeze for the Mandriva
2007 release, and the ultimately released updater was defective.
Typical keystone-cop Mandriva stunt--they manage to do so many things
well, but manage to screw-up just enough stuff to render their release
unusable to anyone new who might be trying Mandriva. I've been a Silver
Edition club member for several years, but when it came time to renew in
December, I didn't bother. I've moved on.
Maybe I'll come back some day, but Mandriva needs to realize that the
linux distro environment today is much higher quality and much more
competetive. They've got to do a better job.
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