Distribution quotes of the week

However, times change, people change, and I realized that time has come for me to sail to new horizons and look for new challenges. Many things changed in Mandriva during those 2.5 years, and it is a completely different company from what it once was. Many people had left, and many new faces has arrived as well during this time. But nonetheless, albeit all the challenges, problems, disappointments and achievements, we managed to stay alive and kicking even in cases where nobody was believing that Mandriva would survive. But it did.

Eugeni now is more or less tied with Warly in my hall of fame list for past release engineers++, and without doubt the most successful managing to do the previously thought-to-be impossible task of scaling sufficiently for it impressively well!

In May 2011, the Beefy Miracle Fedora spin was started. The Beefy Miracle Fedora spin itself was free and open source from the start, but members of the Gnaw project were concerned with Beefy Miracle's dependence on the (then) non-GPL bun warmer, owned by a guy in a hot dog cart down the street. In July 2011, a project was started in response to this: KFCE, a different desktop not using bun warmers, but instead built on chicken fryers under the Gnaw Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a free cookery license that allows GPL-incompatible kitchen appliances to link to it.