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        <title><![CDATA[mint]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mint 12 ......me likedMandriva 2011 .....nice]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lordofserbia]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:18:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[pcbsd / freebsd]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-350840-3527057]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[pcbsd / freebsd  increases the life usability of your older hardware.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gazmanic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:53:31 -0800</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://easylifeproject.org/  makes fedora installs ... well ... easy.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gazmanic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:46:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Greatest rock trio of all time...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-350840-3525008]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Didn't realize that four people made a trio!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[happy_jack]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:48:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[my take]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ZZ Top &amp; Stevie Ray were from TexasDisgusted with Ubuntu's latest, switched to Mint 11, I've played with most of them, play OS Roulette on weekends, been through Fedora, Backtrack, Solaris, Suse, the usual suspects, so far nothing compares to Ubuntu 9.07 Server 64 for stability, ease of tweak, overall useability, and availability of apps.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tagnostic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[my version of this joke]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-350840-3524355]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Triumph really wasn't all that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[atoms]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:48:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[for the power user, too]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-350840-3524339]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[That kickoff is the work of the Russian element of Mandriva, Rosa Labs. They call that the Rosa panel. The log in screen is also their invention, called &quot;simple welcome,&quot; it doesn't have advanced options like being able to change the desktop environment before logging in. No doubt this is aimed at the new user.But Mandriva is as loaded with additional packages as ever, they package by far more apps and tools than any other distribution. Combine this with the near infinite ability to configure the system and all environments and you have the most power user-friendly distribution as well.Mandriva still treats the user with respect, even though the default setup is aimed more at the &quot;typical&quot; end user.They took some bold steps with this release, upgrading to rpm5, for one thing, which promises to deal once and for all with the &quot;dependency hell&quot; non-Linux users still taunt us with.Another huge change is they went with systemd, rather than the old sysvinit type system. This has caused some problems, but they are obviously transitional, as they work to rescript everything so it will be configurable with a single tool, as it had been before with the control of sysv afforded by the &quot;services&quot; page in the Mandriva Control Center. (mcc)mcc by the way is what made Mandrake the go-to it was back in the day. Nobody has made such a complete one-stop system config tool like Mandrake/Mandriva has. ...again, a tip of the hat to the power user.They have definitely worked out some bugs that came along with the massive changes they have undertaken with 2011. The initial release had a lot of people scratching their heads, wondering why when they shut down the cups system and set it to not start at boot with &quot;services&quot; in mcc, it was still running and starting at boot.To Mandriva's credit, not even the well funded fedora juggernaut has mastered systemd completely. (though with updates/bug fixes to 16, that may well change) It was a bold step to dive into this &quot;future of Linux&quot; and I dare say they accomplished much of what was needed to make it a robust and easy to use system.Now, with these experiences under their belts, and a diverse development team bringing the perspectives of Europe, Russia and Brazil to the table, this distribution is back in the saddle again. Expect much from this distribution, you won't be disappointed.It will be interesting to see how other distributions fare in the transition to systemd. I expect you're going to hear a lot of grumbling from Linux communities far and wide. But Mandriva is back in the lead again, ahead of the curve as it's legacy had been for so many years prior to the economic slowdowns that troubled the company's finances in the recent past.Mandrake/Mandriva had always been an ambassador of Linux in the market of the desktop environment. They hit a home run with this release, and you can bet the game ain't over yet.Congratulations Mandriva, and thanks... I'm loving 2011 on all my production units, from mobile workstations to control remote servers, to those servers themselves. Rock solid and trustworthy all around...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[pgit]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:26:41 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Canada]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mandriva hasn't had an office in Canada since the Montreal office closed in 2002 (or thereabouts).  It's likely been a good 8-10 years.  And the last of the Canadian remote contractors left almost 3 years ago.  There is nothing Canadian about Mandriva anymore.Although I do appreciate that if you wanted to cut the budget, you'd hire a bunch of Canadians and let go of the Brazilians... Canadians don't work for money, just firewood.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vdanen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Budget Cuts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think with all the budget cuts they out-sourced both the Paris &amp; Curitiba offices to Canada.http://http://www.mandriva.com/en/contact/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[obxbiker]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:59:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[French, as in France, Not Canadian!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anybody who knows anything about Mandriva, Mandrake, knows it is from France. Good homework there!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[laseray@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:16:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Greatest rock trio of all time...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I didn't realize that Blind Faith was Canadian!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[What the ...!]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:05:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Canadian?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When did Mandriva become Canadian? It was always French with some Russian accent now.http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/08/mandriva-2011.htmlhttp://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2011/09/does-linux-community-needs-corruption.html]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[darkduck]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:55:07 -0800</pubDate>
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