Strange news about MANDRIVA and MAGEIA in /.

[zxr250cc]

Anyone see this post in slashdot today?

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/07/0 ... -codebases

Is Mandriva going to start working with Mageia for code?

gcd

[jkerr82508]

The situation was explained on the Mageia Blog, in the second part of this entry, headed "Mageia is gaining a derivative product"

http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/21/ma ... ll-circle/

Jim

[zxr250cc]

If you start asking us to accept the ROCKET BAR and the ROSA add ons I am going to load SUSE on my computers so fast....

gcd

[wobo]

You did not read very carefully: Short before MGA2 was released the following agreement was set between Mandriva and Mageia:

1. Mandriva needs a basis for their corporate products. As the Mandriva distribution will be subject to a yet to be built foundation Mandriva SA will take the Mageia code (as anybody can do), strip all unnecessary things (unnecessary for corporate products), even change the code, and then take it as basic foundation of their corporate products. In other words: they will "fork" Mageia and use it in their corporate products.

2. Mandriva SA proposed a cooperation between Mageia and the Mandriva community to maintain / revive the Mandriva enduser distribution. This was not accepted by Mageia (explanations in the blog, see Jim's link). Meaning: the Mageia distribution will not be changed by Mandriva people, it will remain the making of the Mageia crowd. So, there's no chance for Rocket Bars or ROSA add-ons in Mageia, unless Mageia community / developpers / council will decide so. Which will never come (hopefully).

[mmix]

beware of Bureaucracy! any organization will become fallen coz of it.

i chose mageia, because it didn't adopt secure boot yet, and it free france! :)

[zxr250cc]

I was making a declarative statement; I understood the blog. I thought the idea should be expressed after my horrible experience with PWP 2011.

cheers,

gcd

[wobo]

Ah, ok, so I misunderstood. I thought you had not read the blog carefully because you stated something that will never happen because of the statements in this blog.

OTOH, I read requests to include the ROSA graphic approach in Mageia! Individual taste can be very different

[PiElle]

Rocket Bars and ROSA add-ons are good for ... ROSA Distribution!...

[doktor5000]

Please, can you stop this flaming about ROSA-related stuff?