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I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 https://www.linkedi

I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 (I worked with him at Data-Publica). He was an incredibly smart and cultivated man, and it makes me sad to see Mandriva go down, it was a beautiful and successful project (at least for a while). I am very thankful for all the hard work people put in these fantastic projects

bootload 11y ago
"I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 (I worked with him at Data-Publica)." Indeed you were lucky. Mandriva really was a great distro. I started using it in 2005/2006 and with gnome bridged the gap in terms of usability and ease of use. You can see it in use here: - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/117923430/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/117923430/ The thing that killed my enthusiasm, was cost then the usability started getting in the way. Historicy buffs will geek out on the fact I started using Mandriva at the same time as I found Aarons python framework, web.py [0]. Up till three months ago, the lessons I learned using Mandriva and webpy allowed me to hack 200 lines of python and run it as my blog on Google AppEngine for a measly $USD10/year from 2007 to 2015. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878 https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878 Not long after that I switched to a new distro called Ubuntu. They even mailed the disks, at no cost. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/115063638/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/115063638/ Long live Mandriva. [0] http://webpy.org/ http://webpy.org/ and http://www.aaronsw.com/ http://www.aaronsw.com/

bootload 11y ago

"I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 (I worked with him at Data-Publica)." Indeed you were lucky. Mandriva really was a great distro. I started using it in 2005/2006 and with gnome bridged the gap in terms of usability and ease of use. You can see it in use here: - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/117923430/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/117923430/ The thing that killed my enthusiasm, was cost then the usability started getting in the way. Historicy buffs will geek out on the fact I started using Mandriva at the same time as I found Aarons python framework, web.py [0]. Up till three months ago, the lessons I learned using Mandriva and webpy allowed me to hack 200 lines of python and run it as my blog on Google AppEngine for a measly $USD10/year from 2007 to 2015. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878 https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/88347878 Not long after that I switched to a new distro called Ubuntu. They even mailed the disks, at no cost. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/115063638/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/115063638/ Long live Mandriva. [0] http://webpy.org/ http://webpy.org/ and http://www.aaronsw.com/ http://www.aaronsw.com/