Today, there seemed to be several interesting news items, so let me elaborate on a couple of them.
Besides the fact that the Mandrake founder Gael Duval isn’t part of Mandriva anymore, the part that interested me was the fact that he was running Mandriva’s Community Department. Their goal was “to improve Mandriva’s image in the open source arena.” Swap Mandriva, with MySQL, and thats me. From engineering grit right up to attending conferences, thats what Community does. Its funny thats what Mandriva chose to close first, seeing their dismal quarter results - basically without an OSS community, you’re nowhere in the OSS world.
I’m a regular lurker on #conary, and reading rPath Creates Malleable, Serviceable Linux Distribution made me …
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