Mageia - a Mandriva fork

Posted Sep 19, 2010 6:29 UTC (Sun) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
Parent article: Mageia - a Mandriva fork

They say there's no one like your first. Well, Mandrake was my first Linux, and won't be forgotten.

But one of the things I've learned since then is what a difference a community vs company distribution makes. Community is what makes FLOSS FLOSS, Linux Linux and what makes a distribution what it is, and no company can really do the same thing. I'm really happiest contributing my part toward a community distribution, and I expect that's where I'll always be.

So I'm glad to see this community based fork. I'm personally happy with Gentoo, loving the power and choice it gives me, but of course I have friends. I look forward to the time Mageia's the community distribution I'm recommending to those who find a binary distribution more appropriate than the Gentoo I'm using. =:^)