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Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage?
Date 2026-07-17 23:02 +0000
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:51:35 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:

> 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.

I had Mandrake on one box and don't recall having any problems with it. It 
was a long time ago but iirc it was a shrink wrapped box featuring a 
penguin with a magic wand. That killed any defense when Hearst sued. 

Compared to installing Slackware from a couple of boxes of floppies it was 
polished.

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OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2026-07-09 13:43 +0800
  Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-09 05:52 +0000
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.duckdns.org> - 2026-07-16 05:10 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-16 05:36 +0000
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-16 02:30 -0400
  Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-07-17 19:51 +0000
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-17 23:02 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-17 21:40 -0400
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 05:39 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 14:54 +0100
            Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:28 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-18 22:30 -0400
    Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-07-18 19:33 +1000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 12:45 +0100
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-18 22:38 -0400
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 14:55 +0100
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:46 +0000
          Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-18 22:43 +0100
            Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-19 01:14 +0000
      Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-07-18 16:40 +0000
        Re: OpenMandriva turmoil - sabotage? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-18 20:53 +0000

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