Re: [freevolive-users] Re: [ANNOUNCE] FreevoLive 0.12

["chrism@xxxxxxxxx" <chrism@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michel Hoogervorst wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, first of all, Mandriva is my personal favorite, it's also the 
> first distro I ever used.  Especially things like urpmi (which in my 
> opinion is much better then apt-get), and the speed of a Mandriva 
> system are the things I like about Mandriva.  User-friendlyness is 
> another big plus for Mandriva.
>
> Besides that, FreevoLive is still a remaster of MCNLive, a Mandriva 
> based live-cd.  When MCNLive provided the function of a remaster, I 
> thought it would be a cool idea to make my own version, with Freevo 
> preinstalled and configured.
>
> The next version will probably not be a remaster of MCNLive anymore, 
> but will probably be build from a clean Mandriva system (if I have 
> enough time to figure that out, before a new Freevo release that is ;-)).
>
> Fedora Core is just not as user-friendly as Mandriva, Gentoo is not 
> user-friendly at all and Ubuntu is a lot slower then Mandriva.  I like 
> the fact that this is still a 100% pure Mandriva system, all software 
> was installed from rpm packages, and thus can be deleted/updated etc 
> just with a few clicks in the Mandriva Control Center, or with the 
> urpmi/urpme command-line utilities.

Ah, I was curious about that.  For this purpose, it doesn't really 
matter what is "under the covers" in terms of the distro since it is 
supposed to be a liveCD and more of an "appliance" than a desktop OS.  I 
have never tried Mandriva before so it is a learning experience for me.  
Thanks for the note.

Cheers,