Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2024-12-30 08:35, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-29 23:18, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:53:51 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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I would have liked to try out your distribution before I settled for
Fedora. Your approach is pretty neat.

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I had not heard of it. The genealogy is interesting. I used Mandrake years
ago and Liked it. It begat Mandriva which seems to have begotten Mageia.

 I am a fan of anything that is community driven, but I am also aware that communities break apart over the most ridiculous of things and often use that difference of opinion as a basis to fork a project. Similarly, a lot of these communities have been poisoned with an ideology where merit takes a backseat to sexual preference, race or gender. I don't want to use the atrocious result of that poison. At least with Fedora, I know that no matter how ridiculous the community might be in its pursuit of "diversity," the product does everything it can to be as professional as possible.
 

The Mandriva name was created by combining "Mandrake" and "Connectiva" after a merger around the time of the comic book company's lawsuit.
Short version of the story: Mandriva's business model was like Red Hat's - give the distro away and sell support - but it never did go well, and they went bankrupt, twice. The second time it was picked up by some Russians, and most of the developers were fired by the new owners. Those developers formed Mageia as a fork of Mandriva, but in truth the new Mandriva was the fork. Mageia is what Mandriva would have been had it continued on course.
TJ