..feeding the attention whore within

Whoa, I haven’t blogged for almost a year now, but with everything going on in the Mandriva Linux community lately, I’ve felt like as if I should..

As the discussions around this all gets way too subjective and just isn’t worthwhile no matter how wrong you know others might be on various details, I’ve tried restrain myself from getting into most of the discussions and I’ll pretty much refrain from going into it much further in public..

With the trend over the last couple of days being people announcing themself leaving Mandriva Linux in favor of Mageia, I’d rather like to announce that I won’t and throughout the next decade I plan on continuing my the past decade’s involvement with the pretty darn best Linux distribution there is, Mandriva Linux!

There’s been a lot of rumours lately, today Arnaud finally announced official news and an update on the situation dismissing most of these, it also had some nice surprises such as the continuation of Powerpack, something which the more plausible speculations and rumours circulating around suggested would be cancelled.
The increased focus on KDE and ambition of becoming the best KDE distribution in the world is certainly something I find very nice as well, not only as a KDE user, but also as it will set us apart from other competitor such as Fedora & Ubuntu, giving us more appeal offering something different, improve the integration and streamlining of tools in the distribution, and also finally, it will bring us back to and focus on what originally gave life to Mandrake back in 1998, KDE! :D

While I wish the best for Mageia, I hope that this will help convince people in staying involved with Mandriva Linux and also on improving relations, I certainly hope to be able to collaborate and share efforts as much as possible with our differences set aside, and perhaps for the projects to eventually complement eachother directly. At least I hope for us to be friends and encourage people in both camps to focus on this and improving relations rather than tarnishing

Finally, I’d just like to say: Long live Mandriva Linux! Hopefully we can finally make you live up to your full potential now! \o/ :o)

Kiss&hugziez
Your luv,
Per Øyvind