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

["Michel Hoogervorst" <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

That's about it.


Michel

2007/4/10, chrism@xxxxxxxxx <chrism@xxxxxxxxx >:

Michel,

I'm just curious.  Any specific reason you are using a Mandriva system
as a base instead of something like Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc?

Cheers,