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Why are you modding him down? OK, saying that Mandriva has become "irrelevant" isn't true, but he does have a point when he says that Mandriva has lost mind-share.

It's great to hear from them that they're working on cool stuff soon to be unveiled, and this new RC is a solid step. But it's obvious that Mandriva, specially in the Mandrake era, enjoyed better times

they are doing better than many think. Many see mostly the community on the web, and more specifically the english-speaking part of that. Mandriva is big in Brazil, and not doing bad in France either. And yes, they are working on some pretty cool stuff, like the whole Nepomuk thing. They might bounce back big, when KDE 4 is out... Esp now Ubuntu won't have it anytime soon.

Modding down because endless discution, and I'm tired that any time there is a news regarding Mandriva, people are talking about Mandriva being irrelevant and not about the news. The news here is: new release, so let's focus please!

What makes it irrelevant? The fact that you don't use it or understand its history or how much they have done for free software on the desktop?

In every single Mandriva thread, there is somebody posting drivel such as yours, which is bereft of any technical content or real insight.

Mandriva is seemingly still contributing to free software by having many of its developers work on the kernel, kde and so forth and still delivering a distribution periodically. Does this bother you?

Are you one of those people that think that everyone should switch to the one true distribution, which happens to be whatever you are currently using right now?

There is strength in diversity.

What makes it irrelevant? The fact that you don't use it or understand its history or how much they have done for free software on the desktop?

No, the fact that nobody is talking about it anymore, or at least not as much as before.

And, for your information, i've used all the FIRST releases of mandriva (when it was called mandrake), so I perfectly understand their history.

In every single Mandriva thread, there is somebody posting drivel such as yours, which is bereft of any technical content or real insight.

If you took the time to read my post, you would have seen that I was only wondering if it were an impression of mine, or if it was shared by someone else.

You must be such a mandriva fan boy that you see an attack in everything different from "Mandriva rulez" and so on.

Are you one of those people that think that everyone should switch to the one true distribution, which happens to be whatever you are currently using right now?

No, I'm just someone who likes to understand what's happening around, and who likes to talk with other people and hear their opinions.

Something that you are clearly not able to do.

Have you tried it?
It is the best looking big distro and the config tools are the best (with those os PCLinuxOS obviously).
urpmi is a bit slower than apt-get but a lot faster than yum.
I use it as my main desktop because I care for look and it's far from irrelevant.

Have you tried it?

yes, i did it several times, since the first Mandrake release.

I use it as my main desktop because I care for look and it's far from irrelevant.

Well, beside the fact that I personally don't like it, I'm sure it has its strength.

But the question I posed was different: it seems to me that it is getting less and less attention from media (especially from the non-tech ones) against, just say, ubuntu and redhat.