[Mageia-discuss] Mageia's strategy

[david]

  It is not uncompatible: you can offer a distro tunable bu taccessible 
to everyone. Mandriva One is tending in this way but unperfectly.

Le 26/09/2010 19:33, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
> On dimanche 26 septembre 2010 at 18:42, david wrote :
>> For example my wish would be a generalist distro (like ubuntu) for
>> newbies and/or microsoft users, easy to use, eyecandy, completely
>> customized in french, much more ergonomic than mandriva in order to
>> propose it for my customers (I founded a company to promote Linux and
>> opensource to individuals&  professionnals). So i would prefer a gnome
>> (or e17 let's be crazy !) , with an eyecandy, sobre and zen theme (for
>> example I like Dropline neu for the icons and Unity), with applications
>> included like simple-scan and deja-dup (for backups) etc...
> I disagree here.
> I am a power-user, and what I like with mandriva so far is that, while still
> providing an easy to install distro with sensible defaults, it does not hide
> away all the power you can get from a Unix/Linux OS. It is still quite easy
> to tweak the system.
> For example, as a java developer I am happy to have multiple JDK available
> which can be installed in parallel (good for testing), while the average
> user will simply get the default (openjdk actually).
>
> Like P. Christeas said in his rant, I don't want mageia to be dumbed down,
> IMO the current status of mandriva (and so the starting point of mageia) is
> a good compromise: it is easy to have a working install, but it is also easy
> to customize it to your needs while staying compatible with future updates.
>
> cheers
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