Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[isadora]

Many thanks to everyone taking some time for introduction.
It is great to see so many people from so many different places all over the
globe. In that, there are always Mageia-followers awake.

I feel the great expectations people have from Mageia.
Also trust into the future of the new distribution, not in the least because of
the name and fame of many contributors.

So far Mageia is going great. The test-versions (Alpha's and Beta) worked
out-of-the-box for many, if not most, of us.
This is promising for the first official release to arrive later on.

To all of you: have great times around with Mageia, visit the forum for all
your questions, ideas, proposals, or just for fun.

[masinick]

I think the community and non-commercial nature of Mageia is going to keep this thing going. The interesting thing is, the original Mandrake also had a great community, and for years had the best Cooker around, but the company, never one to come up with a salient business strategy, kept trying to monetize the community work, even though it was the community that really helped bring many of the contributions, suggestions, testing, and finishing touches that complemented the development. The day some commercial entity succeeds in getting a hold of this one - and let's do what we can to prevent and prohibit that, it will spell a demise here.

Mind you, I am NOT against commercial development of Linux. I think it is good and it helps to have financial investment in the work. But putting a burden on those who make regular, free contributions, whether testing, documentation, helping others, making suggestions, or promoting the work, is simply against the spirit of free software, and that's why we have to have a GPL to ensure that software freedom is preserved.

Let's make a better Cooker here even than what we once had at the original Mandrake and the recent Mandriva. With cooperation and an insistence on freedom, we can make it happen.

[dubigrasu]

Hi people, my name is Chris and why lie...I came here with mixed feelings. Mandriva meant and still means a lot to me.
It feels like a betrayal on my part, but it also feels like Mandriva lost its "mojo" or soul if you like...
I still hope the best for Mandy and I'm not gonna abandon it.

So let's say that I'm here searching for what was lost at Mandriva, I want to see if the "mojo" is here

[isadora]

Welcome dubigrasu!!!!

Lots of members are not unfamiliar to you, i guess.

[dubigrasu]

Yeah, I can recognize a face or two...and who are you?

[dubigrasu]

What the heck...why can't I edit my post
I wanted to add a joke, hm...no fun to add it on a second post.
What's going on here?

[wobo]

See here:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=134

[thomas2000]

Hi.
I'm Thomas, a Linux user since 2000. First SuSe, Kubuntu. At the moment Mageia on my Laptop and Mandriva on my Desktop. In my job I used from 1990-2000 Virtual Management System of Digital for technical equipment and Wndowz for office applications. Since 2005 NO Windowz on my computers.
When Release 1 is there, I will install it on all my computers as main operating system.

[oldcodger]

Hello everyone,
I'm not really old it's just that I felt that way when registering.
I have used Mandrake/Mandriva since 1974 through thick & thin. Tried a few distros but always came back.

Isadora : you will know me as SilverSurfer60 on mandrivausers.org

I am very pleased with the work done on this distro so far. Because it is a fork I feel right at home with it.

Live long & prosper Mageia.

[isadora]

Very welcome oldcodger!!!!

Told it before, a new place and many old friends.
We all want to be Mageia, bringing a new fresh magical future.
And what we have seen so far, is promising!!!

[Germ]

I have used Mandrake/Mandriva since 1974...

[oldcodger]

Oops! Don't know where I got the from.
It should have been 2005. Sorry.

[Germ]

It's OK. Welcome to Mageia.

[wobo]

To me those 12 years with Mandriva often felt like 36 years!

[masinick]

I have used Mandrake/Mandriva since 1974...

That's funny! That is the year that I graduated from High School, and the year before that, 1973, I went on a field trip with my eleventh grade Algegra-Trigonometry class on a trip that literally changed my life and my career plans. I had always planned on doing something "scientific", and I had already chosen my university: Michigan Technological University, but in 1073, in the Fall, I was not yet quite certain of my choice of Major. If you can believe it, I chose Pre-Dentistry. Knowing and understanding what I now know about my skills and weaknesses, I realize that I have relatively poor hand to eye coordination, but strong reasoning skills. Computer Science has worked much better than Dentistry for me!

I got my hands on Mandrake in 1998. my first Linux distribution, Slackware, in 1995, my first regular UNIX system in 1982 at General Motors, and my first look at a UNIX system while at Michigan Tech - on a PDP-11/45 computer system at Michigan Tech, somewhere around 1977, possibly 1978, though I did not actively use it at that time. Right around 1978, I really started getting into the use of minicomputers in labs and microcomputer systems (which were not yet known as "Personal Computers". That term and common name would not be well known for another three or four years - when we can credit IBM for coming up with the name, legitimizing the entire market and creating a new way of using the computer.

Who can we credit for mobilizing the computer and phone as we now know them? We are in the middle of a series of major changes. Though the Mageia desktop as we have known it was one of the first desktops (in the Mandrake tradition), wouldn't it be GREAT to see Mageia eventually help to usher in the next generation of computing? I realize that it's early here, but I hope that there will be those with vision and innovation, as there were when Gael and company helped usher in the original Mandrake vision. May we establish new visions as this effort evolves and matures!

[boklm]

It seems I forgot to introduce myself in this thread. I am boklm living in france.
I started using Linux with Red Hat 5.1 in 1998 or 1999 after getting a CD with a book, and did not understand very well how to install packages and compile kernel. And my modem wasn't working :/ But it was nice discovering something new. I used Mandrake and KDE a little later (with a CD from a magazine). Removed Windows from my computer in 2000 and started using various linux distribution (changing every 2 or 3 months to try a new one) and OpenBSD, NetBSD... And Mandriva since 2007 and now Mageia.

[saptech]

I have used Mandrake/Mandriva since 1974...

but in 1073, in the Fall, I was not yet quite certain of my choice of Major. !

That was around the year with William Wallace of Scotland, huh!

[masinick]

I have used Mandrake/Mandriva since 1974...

but in 1073, in the Fall, I was not yet quite certain of my choice of Major. !

That was around the year with William Wallace of Scotland, huh!

Yeah, in 1073, we really had tremendous foresight! Even in 1973, the intended time, that was true!

We sure have typo fingers in this thread, don't we! As long as we're having fun...

[isadora]

It was some weeks ago, i received the invitation for moderating.
Have taken my time to over-think. Of course very honored, no doubt about.
But i had to make time to considerate, to get sure for myself.
Not only on behalf of time, but also on behalf of my health-situation.

Many of you know me from others forums, and i know many of you.
Believe we have a fine bunch of people here around.
Many of whom i know can have great input into this brand-new forum.

Well, to make a threatening long story short, i agreed and am on duty from now
on to serve you and Mageia!!!

[wobo]

It was some weeks ago, i received the invitation for moderating.

Yes. I received that invitation as well. I accepted the invitation but never heard about it after that. I thought there would be at least some response but, well, no response is a response, too.

I appreciate your nomination and I'm sure you'll be a valuable asset of this forum (actually you are already)!

[dubigrasu]

Isadora as moderator = good choice.

[wobo]

Inspired from the latest posts here I checked "The Team" link and I was surprised:
Germ, Isadora, maat - they are well known people from Mandriva forums and/or have introduced themselves here and by their posts in this forum. But there are more, yet (almost) invisible Global Moderators. Would it not be nice if they would at least introduce themselves - users (I) may want to know who those moderators are.

[HermesLaws]

Hello all
Linux rookie from Germany ready to explore the world of a good linux dis,
I wish the whole team good luck in the last weeks before final RC, do it, lets hope i can explore mageia then.

[sisopetron]

@isadora : congratulations.

siso

[banjo]

Greetings, all.

I have come over from mandrivausers, which appears to have gone very quiet lately. Mandriva appears to have been abandoned by quite a few people.

A little about me. I have been programming since 1968 ( IBM 1130 ) and started programming on Unix platforms in 1975. Wow! How old is that? Old as dirt!I am currently still working in High Tech as the "oldest living programmer".

I started with Linux in 2003 when I abandoned fnWindows permanently and forever on my home computer. Mandriva was my first Linux distro, and since then I have upgraded twice, always to Mandrake and Mandriva. But it appears that Mandriva has changed. I am looking for a stable OS that my family and I can use at home to do our personal business and my web work.

One of the best parts of Mandriva was the group of fine, active folks on the forum. They saved my bacon many times over the years. That enthusiasm appears to have been transferred here.

I am mostly a user. Don't know if I can help.

Hoping for the best for Mageia,

Banjo
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