Friday, June 3, 2011

Linux Update-Mageia-Live

Mageia is finally out and is bootable for the first time without a hitch.
It looks bit primitive and at a glance it looked like when PClinux (big daddy days) came into existence.
It looks it is base upward make up distribution and does not look like the Mandriva or Mandrake look which is good.
The graphic and font are squarish it needs smoothing out.
There were many seeders and leechers and hope they remain active for others to downlod and give feedback.
I am not sure whether they have added Sinhala capability for me to recommend it for Sri-Lankans.
Dropbox, K-torrent, K3B and gParted are missing for it to be useful as a Live CD and for me to introduce it to a newbie
Hope it may Mandrake few Mandrake converts.
It is good for Mandriva too and without dithering they should pull their act together and attract new base.
Unfortunately I am not ready for neither.
Hope they read my blog and count the number of essential utilities that should be there in a standard distribution.
I will download the DVD some time later and give some more.
They have long way to go with dedication and interest they can acheilve great heights.
Good luck to guys and girls at Megeia.
My only advice is that they must forget they are a fork from Mandriva and should think like Unity of Ubuntu and go forward.
Forgive and forget is the way forward and that is lateral thinking in action.

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