A review of Mageia 10 by Jesse from distrowatch. Seems like a fairly solid system overall.
DistroWatch - Mageia 10 Review
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260803#mageia
https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260803#mageia
A review of Mageia 10 by Jesse from distrowatch. Seems like a fairly solid system overall.
9 Comments
refalo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 35d
Why is distrowatch playing politics now? This is very sad news to me.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 35d
A ctrl+f search doesn't show that phrase anywhere on that page?
fruitcantfly@programming.dev · 5 pts · 35d
It's appears to be from https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
I am, however, unsure why the author claims that mint does not adhere to the "principles of software freedom". Maybe because,
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 35d
Ah, good find. I guess technically Mint isn't totally FLOSS, but it does seem a bit odd for them to phrase it that way.
fruitcantfly@programming.dev · 5 pts · 35d
But if that is the reason, then they should label most distros the same way. To give one example, Debian has bundled non-free firmware since Bookworm. It feels very odd for them to single out Mint like this, if that is in fact the reason.
Either way, they need to clearly spell out why they accuse Mint of this
Kory@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 35d
Yes, especially when there is not a word of criticism about Ubuntu that had lots of controversies in the past. With Snap as the most recent and Amazon "integration" as the first I was aware of. That makes it sound more like a personal thing than objective assessment.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 35d
Yeah that's very strange indeed, wonder what happened between them?
WorkingPie@feddit.online · 1 pts · 35d
Not sure where this is posted in the article. Where does Jesse state this?
refalo@programming.dev · 1 pts · 34d
it's here https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major