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criteria to choose rosa or openmandriva ?

Posted: 16 November 2013, 10:32
by promeneur
hello

i wonder what are the criteria to choose rosa or openmandriva ?

thanks

Re: criteria to choose rosa or openmandriva ?

Posted: 16 November 2013, 16:52
by rolf
HI,

I've got an installation of Mandriva 2011 where PS3 Media Server nicely transcodes and plays dvd isos for me on the ps3. Neither Rosa nor Mageia nor anything else I try can do it. I think it's a matter of java or PMS version or mencoder ("Process mencoder has a return code of 1!" is echoed in the PMS log) and I've gone round and round trying to replicate what is on 2011 without success. So, I have to keep that Mandriva 2011.

Rosa is very impressive, to me, with the amount of development going on, it has most of the familiar Mandrake-Mandriva functionality I've learned to use over more than 13 years, and it's up-to-date. Some things I use are not there or broken, some of those get fixed with bug reports, and overall, it works for me, so it's my distro for daily use. I expect it will get better, for me.

Openmandriva has a chance, with fewer resources. I follow development, test betas and RCs, report the problems I have. I am hopeful for a successful release. Since there is no stable release, yet, I am waiting to see whether it is useful, for me. :)