Mandriva user hard at work

I run many different distributions of Linux and enjoy playing with new distros. My enjoyment would not exist were it not for the assistance and support of an outstanding group of folks known as the Linux community. I consider Mandriva to be one of my favorite Linux distros and when I use Mandriva, I cannot help but feel a debt of gratitude for the many people and organizations who support this distro - one of which is SeerOfSouls.

Seerofsouls.com (also known as SoS) is a 3rd party RPM repository for Mandriva Linux. SoS provides users of the Mandriva Linux community with several thousand rpms. The majority of these RPM's are backports from Cooker (the development version of Mandriva) into the latest stable version of Mandriva, which is currently Mandriva 2006. SoS also packages new apps, old apps, and if possible, apps upon request. SoS is currently mirrored on or linked from http://distrowatch.com , http://rpm.pbone.net , http://xchat.org , http://mandrivauser.cz and http://plf.lastdot.org . SoS is also mentioned on or linked from several thousand forums, blogs and other websites. SoS just launched a brand new layout of the website. This new layout is much cleaner and easier to navigate.

The popularity of SoS has grown tremendously with the hit count for May 2005 being just over 23,000 and the hit count for February 2006 standing at 1,030,856. SoS is maintained by Hawkwind, who also maintains the http://urpmi-addmedia.org and http://linuxfordummies.org sites. The urpmi-addmedia website is utilized by the Mandriva community to add online sources to their system while LinuxForDummies.org site is an area of support. Hawkwind also serves as an op in #mandriva and #lfd on irc.freenode.net.

The Linux community is incredibly large and vibrant. There are folks who spend their time on mailing lists, irc channels and forums just waiting to help others with Linux. I consider these folks to be role models and I hope to one day attain their level of knowledge.