Mageia 1 Linux Distribution Reviewed
My interest in Mandriva decreased quite sharply after they let Adam Williamson go, in part because that was one of the early symptoms of problems to come, and in part because his departure left a very large gap in their community. I looked at the release announcements of some of the Mageia pre-releases, but I never actually took the time to download and install one, so this final release is entirely new to me. I am quite pleasantly surprised by it - in a lot of ways, it looks and feels just like a continuation of Mandriva 2010, with the Linux kernal and all the packages brought up to date.
The Mageia installer will look familiar to anyone who has previously installed Mandriva. Although it is quite stable and reliable, as it has been around for quite a while, it feels like it is a bit "old" compared to some of the newer and much simpler installers such as Ubuntu's Ubiquity and Fedora's Anaconda. In particular it has always seemed to me that it asks questions in a bit of an odd sequence, and there are some fairly long delays when it asks a question, then goes off to do something and then comes back to ask some more. But that is all just minor stuff, because in theory you only run through the installation once and then you don't have to deal with it any more.
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