I recently gave Mageia 2 B3 a try. Seems to me like a distribution with quite a lot of potential. I'm running it from within virtualbox with Arch Linux as host. Before Arch, I have been using Fedora for a year, so I am not unfamiliar with rpm's. However what struck me was the absence of a repository of packages contributed by users. I was missing the following packages :
- microsoft core fonts : this is something every distribution should have in it's base repository. I finally found the rpm on fedora's side and installed that. Worked like a charm.
- logitech's squeezeplay application: there is still no rpm available. I'm sure some users are willing to create a package for that.
These are just a few examples but you get the idea.