Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel

[Shlomo Solomon]

As a VERY long time user of Mandrake/Mandriva, I've been following news,
reviews, etc about Mageia but still haven't decided to "jump ship". I
think my main problems are:
1 - the hassle of making the move
2 - the fear (maybe ungrounded) that some applications, drivers, etc may
be missing
3 - the hope (probably mis-guided) that the forks will re-unite
Any thoughts, suggestions?

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:46:52 +0200
Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> replying to myself, I'd like to note that someone asked me to point
> out the benefits of the Mageia Linux distribution. Well, for once
> this message was primarily intended for people who already use it,
> but just in case: here is some info about Mageia.
> 
> About Mageia:
> -------------
> 
> Mageia is a community fork of Mandriva Linux, which in turn is the
> new name of Mandrake Linux. See:
> 
> * http://www.mageia.org/en/
> 
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mageia
> 
> Mageia is currently the No. 2 distribution in popularity on
> DistroWatch:
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/
> 
> Benefits of Mageia:
> -------------------
> 
> #. A user-friendly graphical installer.
> 
> #. Some convenient GUI system maintenance tools.
> 
> #. A wide selection of packages split into "core", "tainted" and
> "non-free".
> 
> #. A lot of glue and integration - components are made to work with
> one another.
> 
> #. Has a release every 9 months or so (so-far Mageia 1 and Mageia 2
> were released, Mageia 3 is in the works) and Mageia Cauldron, which
> is a rolling distribution that stabilises into the next release.
> 
> #. Has versions for i586, x86-64 and an upcoming version for ARM. One
> can configure and install some 32-bit packages on the x86-64 version.
> 
> #. Actively developed by the community and non-commercial.
> 
> #. Stable and secure, for desktop and server.
> 
> #. Contains up-to-date versions of the upstream packages.
> 
> ---------
> 
> Hope that clarifies things.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:09:20 +0200
> Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:58:52 +0200
> > From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
> > To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
> > Cc: Mageia development mailing-list <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
> > Subject: Establishing a Mageia Mirror in Israel
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > if you are a resident of Israel and would like to have an Israeli
> > mirror of Mageia, please let http://mirror.isoc.org.il/ and me
> > know. So far, the administrator of this mirror
> > ( mirrormaster at isoc.org.il ) believes there is too little demand
> > for it, and I would like to show him that this is not the case.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> > 
> 
> 
> 



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