Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?

On 7/18/26 07:45, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Daniel70 <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 18/07/2026 5:51 am, John McCue wrote:
>>> 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 .....!!
> 
> I don’t know the specific issue John mentions.  Usually it would involve
> a hardware issue, for example https://lwn.net/Articles/674940/ - a
> hardware bug for sure but easy to trigger from software.
> 
> Looking more widely than typical PCs, some SoCs have one-time or
> few-time programmable boot configuration; reprogramming that to an
> invalid configuration would brick the device.

   So fix it by breaking it ?  :-)

   As for Arch derivs ... I've had varying success
   with them. Was last using Manjaro, but after a
   year it suddenly wouldn't update anymore - was
   screaming about invalid security signatures and
   such. No work-arounds. Had to dump it.

   Do NOT like the "dual repo" thing either.

   IMHO, yer still best off with Deb and derivs.
   If you want to 'experiment' with others, fine,
   but for solid 'service' boxes ......