masinick wrote:Considering that Mageia is a non-commercial fork replacement for Mandriva and Mandriva has always been very strong in offering many different Window Managers and Desktop Environments, I would like to request that Mageia include the current release of Xfce, Version 4.8, released in January, and the patches in 4.8.1 that have been provided as maintenance updates.
Also, I attempted to install Seamonkey 2.0.13, but was surprised to find a download of Iceape 2.0.13 (did that come from Debian?) but it did not work at all on my system. I would like to see a wide variety of Web browsers, Text Editors, and graphical display environments for Mageia if it is going to replace Mandriva for me, because one of the things I greatly appreciated about Mandriva was the ability to use the Cooker to find and test out the latest and greatest stuff.
What I have seen so far in Mageia is overall package quality quite a bit better than Mandriva 2011 Beta 1, but there are a lot of software packages not yet included in Mageia. Please make a working Seamonkey a priority and a current release of Xfce a priority; these are important to me, thanks!
Hey, after posting this note and noticing the bugzilla forum, I posted a note to Bugzilla and the QA team set me straight. Apparently my repository did not get properly initialized after the initial installation. I came back today, initialized the repositories, and even adjusted them to get the stuff I wanted, then ran a very nice, smooth upgrade.
The take aways from this were multiple:
1. Iceape and Xfce -do- exist in the repositories, and after refreshing again, they all installed.
2. The Bugzilla response is excellent. Not only did the QA team set me straight, they did so quickly and effectively.
The bottom line is that I have all of this software installed and more, and the even better news is that it all works, and very well at that! I believe that we are going to have a REALLY GOOD release here! Keep it up!
