For years, I have used Mandriva, (and prior to that, Mandrake) for software development work.
Recently, on a spare computer, I installed and tried out Fedora 15 with Gnome 3. My sense is that Gnome 3 is an attempt to provide a desktop for tablets, and smart phones, or at least a desktop metaphor more in line with the desktops for those devices. And it may be great for for most casual users. However for development work, where you have literally have dozens of open windows, and are constantly switching between them in the course of editing and debugging, Gnome 3 is an awful substitute for Gnome 2.x Should the folks at Mageia decide to support Gnome 3, it would really be good if there was some option during the installation process to opt for Gnome 2.x for those of us will be looking at Mageia to replace Mandriva as our software development platform. On another note.. with respect to a comparison of Fedora to Mandriva.... Mandriva supplied for a fee, the powerpack version that came with ATI and nVidia proprietary divers installed, and things like adobe flash already installed. After installing Fedora, I noticed the open source driver was displaying faint flickering video artifacts on the screen, not bad enough to seriously interfere with work, but just annoying. And Firefox didn't have the Adobe flash plugin installed. So I downloaded and 'installed' it, but it turned out than downloading the rpm file and running rpm (the command) against it isn't sufficient to get the necessary shared object library into the mozilla plugins directory. The experience reminded me once again that the fee I paid Mandriva for the the powerpack edition was well worth the frustration of having to go out and download drivers and packages and of having to fuss with the configuration details. FredO On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Reinout van Schouwen <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/6/7 philippe makowski <[email protected]>: > >> Before the storm and lightning damage my main computer, I was using >> F15 with Gnome 3 >> and I like it >> >> now I have a box under Mageia, and I miss Gnome 3 ;) > > +1 for that. Can't wait to start using Gnome 3 on Mageia! > > -- > Reinout van Schouwen > http://vanschouwen.info/ >
