I see that some of us are suggesting all sorts of ideas for tools to use and tools to replace and perhaps also new packages to be included.
I would like to suggest that for me and perhaps for a silent majority (OK perhaps not) the most important thing is to get a good stable working Mageia 2011.0 out there and if that means making very very few changes relative to what a new Mandriva release might have been then that is good. The less we seek to change the quicker the first stable release can appear. That is the conclusion I have drawn from some of the dev comments. The quicker the first stable release is out then the sooner we can look to introducing necessary/desirable changes and forge the new Mageia identity. I seem to recall that in the early days Mandrake was belittled by calling it just a repackaged Red Hat. I think the best accolade we could receive for Mageia 1 is "just a repackaged Mandriva". Surely the time to strike out on our own and in our own direction is after we have established a firm foundation which is attractivly familiar to all of the existing Mandriva user base. Richard
