Well, just want to say after using several distro that Mandriva is for me still one of the best "overall" best distro for desktop usage and newbie to linux :
-Distro is rich, and experienced (world wide first class ditro since 1998, 16000 packages, etc)
-Technology and innovation are great (best of class hardawre detection, 3D, control center, etc)
-Support is solid (both by community or as a commercial service is needed)
-Open to external contributors and full respect for free philosphy (all devpt are GPLed, full distro given back to commnuity)
-try to find win-win self founded community / commercial business model (no need for millionaire to serve community, you can vote with your money if you agree the model)
IHMO, the major default relies for me in "branding" the distro and communication with wide community (something Ubuntu does really well at the contrary). Hopefully with this release some communication effort are comming (the club is dissolved for a "plain" open and free of charge community services, prices of commercial offers for individuals are cheaper, web site is revamped, etc).
I invite people who didn't follow up mandriva to come back and look by themselve the changes, I find personnaly, that mandriva is recovering pretty well and as i user from the 9.2 version (2003-2007), I am really satisfied by the current version and also happy with the direction taken by mandriva.
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Well, just want to say after using several distro that Mandriva is for me still one of the best "overall" best distro for desktop usage and newbie to linux :
-Distro is rich, and experienced (world wide first class ditro since 1998, 16000 packages, etc)
-Technology and innovation are great (best of class hardawre detection, 3D, control center, etc)
-Support is solid (both by community or as a commercial service is needed)
-Open to external contributors and full respect for free philosphy (all devpt are GPLed, full distro given back to commnuity)
-try to find win-win self founded community / commercial business model (no need for millionaire to serve community, you can vote with your money if you agree the model)
IHMO, the major default relies for me in "branding" the distro and communication with wide community (something Ubuntu does really well at the contrary). Hopefully with this release some communication effort are comming (the club is dissolved for a "plain" open and free of charge community services, prices of commercial offers for individuals are cheaper, web site is revamped, etc).
I invite people who didn't follow up mandriva to come back and look by themselve the changes, I find personnaly, that mandriva is recovering pretty well and as i user from the 9.2 version (2003-2007), I am really satisfied by the current version and also happy with the direction taken by mandriva.
regards.