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caitlyn

Apr 20, 2012
10:14 PM EDT 		Speaking of KDE and not 'buntu, I'm download the ROSA 2012 Marathon beta tonight, as well as the LXDE based ROSA 2012 LTS. These two look very promising, and very possibly worth successors to Mandriva. The custom apps mentioned in this article look very interesting indeed.
slacker_mike

Apr 20, 2012
10:19 PM EDT 		I tried out their custom KDE desktop and I have to say it was pretty slick. Their mixture of GTK and QT apps was pretty flawless and that stack-folder thing was very cool. From the screenshots I saw their LXDE desktop looked almost identical to their KDE desktop which is kind of neat.
caitlyn

Apr 20, 2012
10:29 PM EDT 		I'm looking forward to trying the LXDE version. The system requirements are surprisingly small for something Mandriva based.
tracyanne

Apr 20, 2012
10:31 PM EDT
Quoting:Their mixture of GTK and QT apps was pretty flawless ...


Mandrake were always good at that, it's good to see the Mandrake/Mandriva devs are still getting the mixed GTK and QT environment thing right.
Koriel

Apr 20, 2012
11:08 PM EDT 		Hmm I may have to take a look at ROSA if their QT/GTK mixing is that good.
caitlyn

Apr 20, 2012
11:52 PM EDT 		FWIW, now 4 days to the final release: http://mibpianetalinux.org/mibcd/cd2012/main/cd.html

@tracyanne: I think most of the devs who did so well at that are now working on the Mageia project, which is also in beta right now and is also worth watching. The ROSA Labs devs seem to be very good at desktop design as well.

@Koriel: Unless your bandwidth is metered there is no cost except your time. I'm thinking this may well be worth a look. Of course, some here know I've liked Mandrake/Madriva for a long time.
tracyanne

Apr 21, 2012
1:01 AM EDT
Quoting:@tracyanne: I think most of the devs who did so well at that are now working on the Mageia project............


That's what I was meaning.
Koriel

Apr 21, 2012
1:46 AM EDT 		I currently use Mageia 1 on a vm for when I have to test proxying stuff under KDE and it was pretty good, they also have a new version being released soon currently at beta 3 i think.

So it looks like all the Mandriva offshoots are busy little bee's.

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