[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 17, Issue 12

[Doug Laidlaw]

Exactly what Wobo said.  ROSA was the name of the new touchscreen-style 
desktop that caused so much anguish for continuing Mandriva users.  People are 
still looking for ways to disable it.

Doug.

On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 10:00:03 PM mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:17:32 -0600
> From: <hellfranciscodrake at gmail.com>
> To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Mandriva in danger of closing its doors
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> Que interesante es esto:
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Rosa
> 
> ?Una nueva bifurcaci?n?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> El Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:11:53 +0100
> 
> Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> escribi?:
> > 2012/1/6 Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info>:
> > > Interesting:
> > > 
> > > http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/238291/mandriva-danger-clo
> > > sing-its-doors
> >
> > 
> >
> > Mageia forum:
> > https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1705
> >
> > 
> >
> > Mandriva forum:
> > http://forum.mandriva.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=136549#p854582
> >
> > 
> >
> > Mageia teams are discussing this on their mailing lists (looking for
> > items they have not yet ported from Mandriva and which may be lost
> > soon).
> >
> > 
> >
> > Interesting sidenote: The russian company RosaLabs (controlled by
> > Townarea trading & investments Ltd, the main investor for Mandriva)
> > released their own Mandriva fork called "Rosa" (see Distrowatch) in
> > late December, it is as close to the original Mandriva 2011 as you can
> > get.