[Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 EOL.

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:32:41 +0000
Robert Wood <robert.wood at apostrophe.co.uk> wrote:
> FWIW, I agree wholeheartedly with having a longer support time. Getting 
> Mageia 1 right on my laptop was a long and painful process; I feel I've 
> only just got it going (OK, it's a year down the line really) and I have 
> to go through it all again in a few weeks. I accept it might be much 
> easier because the kernel improves at light speed, but it would much 
> rather not have to do it for a while!
> 
> I run Mageia 2 on  my desktop and the one and [from my perspective] the 
> only thing that is better about it is GIMP 2.8. I miss nothing 
> whatsoever other than that. Even if it was two years rather than 
> eighteen months it would be great.

As a different data point, I still use Mageia 1 (mainly because I'm
happy with Gnome 2 and don't want to switch to hell), but I'm ok with
Mageia 1 being EOL'ed. I think the developers would better spend their
time concentrating on making a polished, high-quality Mageia 3 (and
then I can install it and switch to XFCE :-)).

Regards

Antoine.