Anyway, maybe something more close to home (figuratively speaking): “Speaking at the Iditarod finish line today, winner Adam Williamson had this to say about Mandriva’s future goals…”

As for XGL, I’ll comment on another of your entries…

I don’t get the obsession with XGL. It’s pure eye candy which as of yet does absolutely nothing for anyone’s actual productivity. Personally I’ve got precisely zero interest in it and I’d much rather Boiko spent his time on more fundamentally important tasks than including a fancy but ultimately pointless graphical hack layer.

Or the way they manage they objectives, well planned. Hey, they really know where they want to go and what they want to achieve.

Mandriva has nothing similar. And, yes, i think Ubuntu Linux is a step behind now. But could be a step ahead in just 6 months (XGL is not going to be officially in Mandriva Linux 2007, so waits to 2008, and like that another technologies).

For me, what Ubuntu has created is a really good infraestructure (launchpad, with the Rosetta translation web application, etc). And getting some ideas from there for Mandriva it’s not only a good idea. I think is a must!

https://launchpad.net/rosetta
https://launchpad.net

yoho – I agree (although the plumbing for multiarch seems to work rather well, the main problems with x86-64 are to do with x86-64 packages). There’s some improvements to urpmi’s multiarch behaviour in Cooker, I believe, and I know there’s some work happening on Xen for Corporate 4; I’ll see if we can get that to filter back to the main distro.

1. Become astronaut
2. …
3. Profit!

On the other hand, while I sometimes disagree with their publicity or implementation choices, I really like what Ubuntu is doing for the visibility – and perceived viability – of the Linux desktop.