Can someone ELI5 what OpenMandriva is?
In what place does it stand in contrast to Fedora, OpenSUS, and all the Enterprise Linux forks?
Mandriva was a Linux distribution that went out of business years ago. OpenMandriva is one of the projects that rose from its ashes with some of the same personnel and code base. It is an independent (not a fork) and community run distribution that, I think, does quite a lot with very limited resources.
And Mandriva itself was an attempted resurrection of the old Mandrake distribution (which was sorta the Ubuntu of its day). Really hoping OpenMandriva manages to make a go of it considering the ringer those folks have been through.
Mandrake has to be the funniest name ever
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How do the ‘offspring’ of Mandrake/Mandriva compare to one another? IIRC, there’s ALT, Mageia, OpenMandriva, PCLinuxOS and ROSA.
I’ve also come to the understanding that what set Mandrake apart from its peers was its polish and user-friendliness. Which, harbored a great community back in the days. Currently, however, this role is fulfilled by distros like Linux Mint. Furthermore, most distros are relatively straightforward anyways. So, my other questions would be:
- Could the argument be made that Linux Mint is the actual spiritual successor to Mandrake?
- Are the Mandrake-offspring’s most compelling raison d’être that they’re Mandrake’s offspring?
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I think you right. Especially when PCLinuxOS is the “The Boomer Distribution“ according to the website. Obviously the community and user friendliness ( like the control center) you mentioned was the main reason. Lastly, destroying your CRT monitor by a wrong X config was part of the learning process.
I wonder what would happen if this amount of effort and persistence was put into something more useful.
Good question. Delete your account and see what happens!
Why the hate?
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