Gael Duval....Gone

[KingBahamut]

http://www.indidea.org/gael/en/

Hmmm...They fired the creator. That cant be a good sign, or can it?

Any former Mandriva/Mandrake users here that can verify this as good or bad?

[imagine]

Maybe he joins Ubuntu, heh.

Btw you really need to stop reading osnews : )

[KiwiNZ]

Corporations continue and thrive after the founder moves on.That in itself is not a bad thing.
However a look at the fiscal results for Madriva is not good reading. That is a Corporation that is not in good health.

Maybe new blood will help.

I used Mandrake for a long time and liked it.However recent versions have been very unimpressive.

Time will tell if this is the answer but I think time is running out.

[KingBahamut]

Not having used Mandrake in some time(I think I picked one up in 2000 and used it for a bit, but dropped it immediately and went back to Slackware), I always found it to be a good starting point, but not much of an "enterprise" solution.

Its package management via urpmi was very confusing to me, and the base install lacked a number of things an advanced user would need.

Those are my gripes about the build, but Im sure those are probably just superficial on my part.

I found the news that they had crammed down to a One Disc install (Mandrake Move's most recent release) was a milestone for them. Perhaps they are moving in the proper direction, who knows?

Thats why I asked.

[ComplexNumber]

I used Mandrake for a long time and liked it.However recent versions have been very unimpressive.
i think i would agree with that. i was brought up on mandrake, almost. but it seemed to slide downhill after version 10 and the new acquisitions. i was unimpressed with 2006. they changed their development cycle from 6 monthly to yearly...and this seemed to add to their systems becoming unreliable. sounds illogical, unless there were other forces at work.