Mandriva 2010.2 makes Linux easy

User friendliness is what Mandriva is known for and IMHO they do a lot better job of it than that U distro thingy. Hopefully with the new ownership their finances won't be in the Linux/tech press and the quality of their distro will be.

The only distro that may have outdone Mandriva for ease of use is Pardus 2011. That one is impressive.

caitlyn - I also really enjoyed Pardus, but I had difficulty finding a software repo mirror that's not slow as molasses to access from where I live. Perhaps I should look again. :/

I'm really looking forward to the upcoming fork...the community fork. Magia or something....maybe magenta. No, it's magnesia....no wait...

Linux naming schemes honestly need some improvement. Regardless, I am looking forward to a stable release.

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It's been a real problem in general for linux: really cool software with dorky names. Sort of the opposite of microsoft, which has really dorky software with cool names.

> Linux naming schemes honestly need some improvement.

Yeah, it's such a shame "Bob" has been used already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegWedG-jk4

You could reclaim Bob for open-source. Maybe GNU/Bob ??

I just cannot get the image out of my mind of when Pitor in UserFriendly coded Clippy the Helpful Paperclip into vi.

"It looks like you're writing an extortion letter. Can I help?"

Microsoft didn't take all names yet, some are "up for picking".

http://www.britishcolumbia.com/Ski/

Hamlock, Manning, Harper, Silver Star, Revel Stoke, Salmo, Timothy; they're all up for taking. I'm pretty sure Windows 8's codename will be "Troll".