Re: Announcing Mageia, a fork of Mandriva Linux

>>
But I was wondering much much overlap of this community fork is to
another Mandriva fork: pclinuxos.
>>>

pclinuxos is already a good classy distro and fork of Mandriva. So why
would any one need a new one?.. anyways, freedom is the basic reason
we all here.. Lets see what happen next.?

On 9/21/10, shelandy <[email protected]> wrote:
> It is a good thing to have a counter-part in Mandriva arena as to
> Fedora-Redhat.
> But I was wondering much much overlap of this community fork is to
> another Mandriva fork: pclinuxos.  And if Mageia is aiming to do a
> better job than  pclinuxos did, which direction of approach make you
> think so?
>
> If someone can explain, I will be appreciated.
>
>
> Kuo-Chieh Ting
>
>
> On ??2010?09?18? 11:41, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> As Jerome already said on cooker@ list, a fork of Mandriva Linux is now
>> being
>> created, named Mageia. Many people from the Mandriva community, including
>> former employees, are already on board.
>>
>> Below is the announcement copied from http://mageia.org :
>>
>> As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is
>> unclear.
>>
>> Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was
>> liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't
>> think
>> the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project.
>>
>> Many things have happened in the past 12 years. Some were very nice: the
>> Mandriva Linux community is quite large, motivated and experienced, the
>> distribution remains one of the most popular and an award-winning product,
>> easy
>> to use and innovative. Some other events did have some really bad
>> consequences
>> that made people not so confident in the viability of their favourite
>> distribution.
>>
>> People working on it just do not want to be dependent on the economic
>> fluctuations and erratic, unexplained strategic moves of the company.
>>
>> ** Forking Mandriva Linux? Yes.
>>
>> Forking an existing open source project is never an easy decision to make,
>> and
>> forking Mandriva Linux is a huge task.
>>
>> It was not an impulsive decision. We all spoke a lot before: former
>> employees,
>> Cooker contributors and users' communities. We collected opinions and
>> reactions
>> in the past weeks as we needed to get some kind of global agreement and to
>> gather, before going ahead.
>>
>> We believe a fork is the best solution and we have decided to create a new
>> distribution: Mageia.
>>
>> ** New grounds.
>>
>> Mageia is a community project: it will not depend on the fate of a
>> particular
>> company.
>>
>> A not-for-profit organization will be set up in the coming days and it
>> will be
>> managed by a board of community members. After the first year this board
>> will
>> be regularly elected by committed community members.
>>
>> This organization will manage and coordinate the distribution: code &
>> software
>> hosting and distribution, build system, marketing, foster communication
>> and
>> events. Data, facts, roadmaps, designs will be shared, discussed through
>> this
>> organization.
>>
>> We will discuss and lay down details in the coming days.
>>
>> Mageia distribution will be what the board makes it to be, with the help
>> and
>> contribution of the whole community. We already have ideas and plans for
>> this
>> distribution; we want to:
>>
>>   . make Linux and free software straightforward to use for everyone;
>>
>>   . provide integrated system configuration tools;
>>
>>   . keep a high-level of integration between the base system, the desktop
>>     (KDE/GNOME) and applications; especially improve third-parties (be it
>> free of
>>     proprietary software) integration;
>>
>>   . target new architectures and form-factors;
>>
>>   . improve our understanding of computers and electronics devices users.
>>
>> You certainly have your ideas too. We will take the time to share these.
>>
>> ** Community.
>>
>> We understand the Mageia community as:
>>
>>   . users,
>>   . makers (designers, developers, packagers, translators, testers, etc.),
>>   . advocates.
>>
>> Those can be individuals, organizations, companies from all over the
>> world.
>>
>> There are challenges here; so many countries, so many languages, so many
>> cultures, so different needs. And that's great.
>>
>> We've seen with the Mandriva Assembly experiment that it's not an easy
>> task. We
>> believe we can make it better yet.
>>
>> ** People.
>>
>> Whatever you do in life, people are your greatest and only true asset. And
>> Mageia aims to help people. Trust matters. We are only at the very
>> beginning of
>> this fork. It won't be easy. But we believe it to be necessary.
>>
>>     Ahmad Samir (ahmad78) - Mandriva contributor (bug triage team,
>> packaging)
>>     Anne Nicolas (ennael) - former Mandriva employee (was packaging,
>> release manager, community management)
>>     Anssi Hannula (Anssi) - Mandriva contributor (packaging, translations)
>>     Arnaud Patard (rtp) - former Mandriva employee (was kernel hacker)
>>     Christophe Fergeau (teuf) - former Mandriva employee (was urpmi,
>> drakxtools, rpm, gcc, ...)
>>     Colin Guthrie (coling) - Mandriva contributor (Pulse Audio, packaging)
>>     Damien Lallement (dams) - former Mandriva employee (was QA manager)
>>     Erwan Velu - Mandriva contributor (packaging, hardware enabling)
>>     Félix Martos - Blogdrake admin
>>     Guillaume Rousse (guillomovitch) - Mandriva contributor (packaging,
>> mirror tools)
>>     Jérôme Quelin (jq) - Mandriva contributor (Perl, packaging)
>>     Michael Scherer (misc) - Mandriva contributor (build system, Python,
>> packaging)
>>     Nicolas Vigier (boklm) - former Mandriva employee (was working on
>> build system, packaging, mandriva research projects)
>>     Olivier Blin (blino) - former Mandriva employee (was Drakxtools,
>> installer, Perl, boot, ...)
>>     Olivier Mejean (goom) - French users community
>>     Olivier Thauvin (Nanar) - Mandriva contributor (packaging, mirrors)
>>     Pascal Vilarem (maat) - French users community
>>     Romain d'Alverny (rda) - former Mandriva employee (was information
>> system manager)
>>     Séverine Wiltgen (sevalienor) - former Mandriva employee (was
>> professional support, server stack)
>>     Thierry Vignaud (tv) - Former Mandriva employee and contributer
>> (Drakxtools, installer, Perl, packaging)
>>     Thomas Backlund (tmb) - Mandriva contributor (kernel hacker,
>> translations)
>>     Wolfgang Bornath (wobo) - German users community
>>
>> For other contributors: if you want your name to be added to the list,
>> indicating that you plan to follow the fork, let us know on IRC channel,
>> or by
>> email.  Next.
>>
>> We are looking for many different things in the next days:
>>
>>   . hardware for code hosting, build servers + datacenters to host these
>> servers;
>>   . developers, contributors, translators, testers to invest into the
>> development of Mageia;
>>   . counsels on building the organization and its processes, etc.
>>
>> Your help and support will be very much appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>


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