Ubuntu has the largest and most active community, the biggest software repositories and for me (I'm a Gnome user) one of the most polished and well working environments. It also tends to stay stable over time and has a regular 6 months upgrade cycle.
However, I'll be happy to take Mandriva for a spin again
You should. Mandriva's implementation of Gnome is second to none (and much less modified than Ubuntu's, I might add).
Difficulty getting new releases out? You mean that the 2010.0 release was two whole days behind schedule? Yeah, that casts a doubt over the entire distro.
Totally agree. Furthermore, *thanks* to the EU there is the European Court of Human Rights that one can turn to when all regular courts have failed you. If I recall correctly, Intel even announced recently they would appeal their antitrust fine there. That court has delivered some important verdicts in the past few decades.
...and before I forget, you attacked me on 'renewable energy' but conveniently forgot the equally import issue of energy conservation and efficiency. Making lots of buildings energy efficient is also a good way of creating jobs for the unemployed.
First of all, the question was not about energy sources but about privacy. Second, you can call 'FUD, fear mongering and outright lies' all you want, but as far as I can judge it, it's word for word the truth. Nuclear power is 20th century, energy-efficiency and renewable energy is the future.
Of course. The European Green Party. Yes, they're represented by local Green parties in member states, but they work together in one fraction in the European Parliament and share a common vision. Their track-record, privacy-wise, is unbeaten.
Hate to break it to you, but the bureaucratic machine will be there with or without the Lisbon Treaty. Given the choice, I would vote for the treaty. Not because it's perfect, but because it is better than what we have now.
This is a completely separate issue, by the way, from the data retention directive, which I vehemently oppose.
The US already have passed a law that allows them to liberate American citizens by force in case they are held captured by the International Criminal Court in The Hague... they might as well finish the job while they're at it.:-S
First of all, our currency is the âuro, thank you very much. Second, I could only wish our government would follow the advice of the researchers who wrote this study more often. Reports like these mostly end up somewhere in a drawer when the outcome doesn't fit well with the interests of the industry (more often than not multinationals).
Why not? Epiphany may be using a Gecko (or Webkit, in beta) backend - does that negate all the work done to provide a pleasurable Gnome-integrated browsing experience?
Oh, another thing that annoyed me about OO was the that whatever "dictionary" they used for their spell checker was seriously outdated. When it doesn't recognize a word like "contactor" (neither does Firefox, go fucking figure)
Surprise, Firefox and OO.o use the same (myspell/hunspell) dictionaries. If you want to contribute to the spell and grammar checking subprojects for your language, I am sure they will appreciate your help.
As an EU resident I must inform you that the European Commission isn't a government, and neither is it representative. The European Parliament is the only European institute that is directly elected by the population, however, its powers are quite limited.
I used to be a silver member in Mandrivaclub (two years back I think) - but I got a bit fedup having to pay for access to repositories that provide DKMS versions of proprietary nvidia drivers and such and I didn't like the 3rd party repositories for that stuff because they were messy.
This policy has been abandoned. All repositories except the commercial software ones are available to all at no charge. That includes the repository with the proprietary drivers.
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FWIW, Mandriva is still selling their Enterprise Server product.
Ubuntu has the largest and most active community, the biggest software repositories and for me (I'm a Gnome user) one of the most polished and well working environments. It also tends to stay stable over time and has a regular 6 months upgrade cycle.
However, I'll be happy to take Mandriva for a spin again
You should. Mandriva's implementation of Gnome is second to none (and much less modified than Ubuntu's, I might add).
Difficulty getting new releases out? You mean that the 2010.0 release was two whole days behind schedule? Yeah, that casts a doubt over the entire distro.
Mandriva sounds like a fruit.
Gee. That must be why products from a certain other fruity-named vendor are so unpopular.
Totally agree. Furthermore, *thanks* to the EU there is the European Court of Human Rights that one can turn to when all regular courts have failed you. If I recall correctly, Intel even announced recently they would appeal their antitrust fine there. That court has delivered some important verdicts in the past few decades.
Brinkman hasn't been a Member of Parliament since 15 years or so. The other members of the committee aren't MPs either, but journalists.
...and before I forget, you attacked me on 'renewable energy' but conveniently forgot the equally import issue of energy conservation and efficiency. Making lots of buildings energy efficient is also a good way of creating jobs for the unemployed.
I'm not letting you drag me into an offtopic debate about nuclear power here -- let me just say I roughly support Ralph Nader's stance on this issue.
First of all, the question was not about energy sources but about privacy. Second, you can call 'FUD, fear mongering and outright lies' all you want, but as far as I can judge it, it's word for word the truth. Nuclear power is 20th century, energy-efficiency and renewable energy is the future.
Of course. The European Green Party. Yes, they're represented by local Green parties in member states, but they work together in one fraction in the European Parliament and share a common vision. Their track-record, privacy-wise, is unbeaten.
Hate to break it to you, but the bureaucratic machine will be there with or without the Lisbon Treaty. Given the choice, I would vote for the treaty. Not because it's perfect, but because it is better than what we have now. This is a completely separate issue, by the way, from the data retention directive, which I vehemently oppose.
Maybe you should look at what the guys at Mandriva have done to fix those drivers first.
The US already have passed a law that allows them to liberate American citizens by force in case they are held captured by the International Criminal Court in The Hague... they might as well finish the job while they're at it. :-S
Please note that Hollywood is not the only place in the world where films are produced.
First of all, our currency is the âuro, thank you very much. Second, I could only wish our government would follow the advice of the researchers who wrote this study more often. Reports like these mostly end up somewhere in a drawer when the outcome doesn't fit well with the interests of the industry (more often than not multinationals).
Epiphany supports extensions. Just not extensions written for Firefox, since they're intrinsically incompatible.
Why not? Epiphany may be using a Gecko (or Webkit, in beta) backend - does that negate all the work done to provide a pleasurable Gnome-integrated browsing experience?
the latest version of Mandriva will neither logout nor shutdown, instead choosing to hang indefinitely.
It's unfortunate that it doesn't work well for you, but it works fine for many other people. Have you filed a bug already?
Oh, another thing that annoyed me about OO was the that whatever "dictionary" they used for their spell checker was seriously outdated. When it doesn't recognize a word like "contactor" (neither does Firefox, go fucking figure)
Surprise, Firefox and OO.o use the same (myspell/hunspell) dictionaries. If you want to contribute to the spell and grammar checking subprojects for your language, I am sure they will appreciate your help.
now, don't count me out yet. i'll just wait for 2 weeks before retrying. bye then, these bugs should be worked out. i have faith in the mandriva team.
Please file bugs! Don't count on the Mandriva developers to read Slashdot to find out which bugs to fix. Thanks!
Just press Alt+F2 and paste in the URL. Evince, Gnome's document viewer, will open it nicely for you.
As an EU resident I must inform you that the European Commission isn't a government, and neither is it representative. The European Parliament is the only European institute that is directly elected by the population, however, its powers are quite limited.
Details about GTK3 can be found in Kristian Rietvelds' GTK+ State of the Union.
I used to be a silver member in Mandrivaclub (two years back I think) - but I got a bit fedup having to pay for access to repositories that provide DKMS versions of proprietary nvidia drivers and such and I didn't like the 3rd party repositories for that stuff because they were messy.
This policy has been abandoned. All repositories except the commercial software ones are available to all at no charge. That includes the repository with the proprietary drivers.
I know you're joking, but it has to be said that Mandriva's GNOME desktop is second to none.