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direct link to mandriva blog post -- http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-return-to-the-community/ http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2012/05/17/mandriva-linux-will-r...
- diminish 14y agoAny HN Mandriva users out there? Why does Mandriva matter now? I am using Ubuntu, Debian Centos on Servers and enjoyed pretty much every other distro, do you have any points why Mandriva matters in 2012 or what different it offers?
- 16s 14y agoI did... ten years ago. They used to be the most user-friendly Linux distro available. I actually bought some of their box sets for my less-technical friends. In my opinion, Debian-based distros have won. For any of those old enough to recall the rpm versus deb debates/wars over which is better, it's rather clear that aptitude and Debian have taken the lead in the community. How many distros are derived from Debian now? When Redhat killed RHL and focused on Enterprise Linux, that was the turning point. Now most of the big name Enterprise Linux guys are rpm based (RedHat, SuSE and Oracle) and the community distros are mostly Debian based. Sad to see Mandrake go away though. Ten years ago, it was what Ubuntu is today.