Mandriva又损一员大将--Florent Villard离开

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First, let's get the bad news out of the way. Florent Villard (pictured on the right), a highly experienced Mandriva developer better known as "Warly", has decided to quit his job: "I joined Mandriva in 1999. I was there during the Internet boost, I was there during Chapter 11, and I will be there till the end of next week... It is now time for me to change, to search and learn new things." Warly doesn't give a clear reason for his decision and neither does he hint at his future plans, but many Mandriva users will surely miss him. Read Bye Bye Mandriva for Warly's last blog post as a Mandriva employee.

While on the subject of Mandriva, Adam Williamson has emailed us an important piece of information regarding the Mandriva Linux 2007.1 beta live CDs which started appearing on the mirrors last Friday: "Could you amend your story to tell people that the One ISOs for beta 1 currently on the mirrors should not be used? The Free DVD ISO, code-named 'loolapop', is fine, but the One ISOs, code-named 'doctor', are not the final version, have known issues and shouldn't be used. We will be pushing the final version of the One ISOs out to the mirrors over the weekend or on Monday, prior to the official announcement of the beta."
http://daily.warly.org/static/9.html

ShiyuTang

Mandriva 真的是气数已尽，再难恢复了。

liuxg1581

我觉得应该乐观的看待问题，公司人员的进、出是一个正常现象，当初Mandriva的创始人离开的时候，大家也觉得Mandriva要不行了，可是2007却做的比2006好。

ShiyuTang

主要是现在 Mandriva 钱差不多花光了。股票也降到垃圾股市场（就像国内的“三板股”）了。2006版销量惨淡，07版也不行。企业版更卖不动。

gearbox

MDK干脆放手一搏，同时走个时髦路线——从RH系里跳出，到Ubuntu队伍里，走一条和Mepis差不多的路。

liuxg1581

四楼讲的我还真是不知道
但是，mandriva的销售区域或许是太狭窄了
应该扩大销售地区，比如重视我们国家
同时采取地区差价的做法
要是产品的价格在100多RMB
我肯定买它的正版
用EUR计价，或许欧美消费者看来就是买个玩具（Mandriva Linux 2007 Powerpack
Box version 79,00-EUR  TTC.）
但作为中国的消费者
我可买不起。

charliechan

Post by gearbox
MDK干脆放手一搏，同时走个时髦路线——从RH系里跳出，到Ubuntu队伍里，走一条和Mepis差不多的路。

真是走時髦路線的話,應該把開發模式轉為完全的社群式,就像openSUSE,Fedora和Ubuntu那樣

ShiyuTang

Mandriva 的问题就是一直没有一个计划，想做什么做什么。不仅如此，由于质量较差，所以一直不能打入企业市场。实际上活的滋润的 Linux 企业基本都是靠企业版本赚钱，除非它有一个太空人老板。Mandriva 想靠个人用户赚钱，这不大现实。再加上 Ubuntu 的挤压、甚至那个衍生自 Mandriva 的 PCLinuxOS 都比 Mandriva 更能吸引普通消费者时，Mandriva 的衰败就可想而知了。

yechf

唉， 我对mandriva有感情了，习惯了urpmi......
以后怎么办？

ShiyuTang

对 Mandriva 已经没有爱了。其实好久都没有给 Mandriva 做事情了。不知道现在中文化方面还有人在做吗？