Help Mandriva choose a name for its community distribution

Will the users have any other say? I can remember fondly many a distro being touted as a community thing.. only to be stepped upon when xyz distro chose so, abruptly ending a great base of user's and some pithy revenue as well. I'm glad Mandriva is starting with a fresh approach as this one but I do think it's up to those who have witnessed so called "community" oriented distributions too question and ask for further commitments for the user satisfaction, security and overall stability and usefulness. Whose to say two years from now new-mandriva won't be a popular community distro--only to ditch that community when it decides to choose a different path, philosophy, business model, desktop, etc...?

You have been warned: this is not the first "community" distro. Call upon mandriva to make certain concessions/commitments before giving them a single inch of rope to strangle a yet to be built newish community.

Personally, I don't think it matters any more. Mageia has the momentum and backing now....I think it was too little too late on Mandriva's part. I would point to OpenOffice Vs Libra Office as an example. Sure, OpenOffice has the backing and support by the Apache project but I believe all the community effort has been thrown behind LO. Just empirical data yes but I would count it as fairly accurate.

Also don't forget ROSA Linux. It has corporate backing and a fair amount of community interest at this point.

I read your work on it a bit ago...I will download it now and take a look. My test partition is blank and needs to be put to work. I just need to remember to boot into my main environment when I get up. Diane absolutely freaks when she sits down and doesn't recognize a KDE or LXDE desktop.

Quoting:Diane absolutely freaks when she sits down and doesn't recognize a KDE or LXDE desktop.

ROSA has two versions: KDE (officially supported) and LXDE (community supported). Fair warning: both are heavily customized. If the machine has pretty decent horsepower I'd recommend the KDE as the first trial.

I've been meaning to revisit KDE since braver souls than I are reporting it's no longer inhabited by Zombies. I have a quad core with 8 gigs of RAM. If that doesn't do it, then the Zombie Apocalypse is still on.

Quoting:I have a quad core with 8 gigs of RAM. If that doesn't do it, ...

That is a lot more than enough but one thing you need to make sure of is to have a good supported graphics driver. From my experience, you could have the best hardware resources ever but the graphics driver is not up to par or not configured properly, you will still have pretty bad experience in performance.

Quoting:From my experience, you could have the best hardware resources ever but the graphics driver is not up to par or not configured properly, you will still have pretty bad experience in performance.

I agree with this. Of course, if you have an older or more limited graphics card and don't expect the impossible that often works out well :)

I'm good from a graphix card point of view. I'm running two GeForce GTX 460's in SLI. No issues at all with the driver from Nvidia...