Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?

The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A little, after lunch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18/07/2026 10:33, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 18/07/2026 5:51 am, John McCue wrote:
>> Followups changed to comp.os.linux.misc
>> In comp.os.linux.misc Woozy Song <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Just got an e-mail from OpenMandriva explaining what occurred. They took
>>> on a new developer, who became abusive to others in the team. So the
>>> person at the top blocked them from the chat, but unfortunately did not
>>> cut off the dev priveleges. Anyway the problematic person spat the dummy
>>> and deleted a heap of stuff from Github.
>>> Has similar happened to other distros?
>>
>> That is too bad, I have not heard of that happening to other
>> distros.
>>
>> But Mandriva seems to have a "curse" on it.  IIRC, ages ago
>> the distro it descended from, Mandrake, had an issue that
>> broke some hardware.  I forgot the exact problem but it caused
>> many people to migrate to another distro.
>>
> Sorry!! How can ANY Distro of anything break Hardware?? Old Age can, 
> sure, but .....!!
Well back in the day Debian would not include 'non-free' drivers in its 
distro.
Linux Mint did.

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