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By: Communauté Mandriva : un profond changement « Le blog de yoho

Communauté Mandriva : un profond changement « Le blog de yoho — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:53:25 +0000

[...] à peine en place, une bourrasque est venue secouer la communauté : le départ forcé d’Adam Williamson (représentants hyperactif de la communauté Mandriva sur tous les fronts et l’un des [...]

By: travisn000

travisn000 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:13:08 +0000

PCLinuxOS is a great choice.. I’ve tried mandriva a few times, but have yet to give up PCLOS for it.

It’s sad to hear about your all your recent bad news Adam.. although not a regular mandriva user, I have often found your contributions to the mandriva community useful in my work with PCLOS. I wish you the best and who knows, maybe you will find your way over to http://www.PCLinuxOS.com from time to time!

By: My Blog » Blog Archive » Two bad news this week

My Blog » Blog Archive » Two bad news this week — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:22:08 +0000

[...] Adam Williamson will no longer work for Mandriva. What? The guy was always represent Mandriva so well, some people think that he IS Mandriva. But Mandriva the company, due to a budget cut and harsh economic situation, fired the respected awilliamson. Bad move from Mandriva. Again. Yeah, right. Again. First was Gael Duval. The very founder of Mandrake. And now Adam? What are those guys in Paris thinking? News spread on Distrowatch. Some of the comments suggest that Adam should work for Canonical slash Ubuntu slash Mark Shuttleworth. I don’t like Ubuntu, hence I don’t like Canonical. Do not agree with that. Some of the other suggest that he should help PCLinuxOS slash texstar. It is based on Mdv2007 anyway. I prefer this idea than the previous one. But Adam stated himself that he may will continue to be an active member of the Mandriva Community. I don’t know. Mandriva the distribution he said. Not the company. Mandriva in my PC slash laptop? Always trying to get things working the way i like. Hasn’t succeed much. Mdv2006 was fine, Mdv2007 was also fine. The thing is, I didn’t get to install it on my SATA based laptop. MCNLive Toronto was also the same. Pendrivelinux (based on MCNLive Toronto which eventually based on Mdv2007) acts strangely that I can never fully understand. TinyMe 2008.0 has the same problem with SATA drives. IMHO, Mandriva’s best release was the 2008 spring. One downside is the proprietary codecs, that you must purchase via Codeina if you want to listen to some exotic files like m4a and aac. I’m a KDE guy so the 2009 version along with KDE4 is still no match for KDE3 robustness and customizable traits. So? so long Mandriva, I am now using PCLinuxOS MiniMe. Along with a working internet connection, MiniMe is a breeze to handle and customize. Especially when adding softwares and codecs. Synaptic is quite nice for an end user, on par with the urpmi graphical interface from original Mandriva. Maybe I’ll try Fedora 10 later on. They have quite nice reviews spread on the web. Next bad news is Honda quits F1. Again due to economics condition. As the news suggests, a bit of optimism spread among the crew, including Jense and Ross Brawn. A team in need of an owner. Gaaa! I’m kinda confused on this one: will Honda continues to supply the engine for the team? Well Bernie (Ecclestone that is) suggests that all team should use one engine supplier somewhere in the near future. So the team could remain, under a new flag, new names, with … an engine supplier which I still haven’t figured out yet. This economic storm … what the hell with it? [...]

By: Tormenta en Mandriva « InsaneCrew

Tormenta en Mandriva « InsaneCrew — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:06:05 +0000

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By: TtfnJohn

TtfnJohn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:26:08 +0000

I just saw all of this, Adam, and wish to extend my best to you in this and my sadness in your leaving.

I simply hope that someone will think again and, as with Vincent, understand they make a mistake here. All of your enthusiasm and hard work will be missed by those of us you’ve helped or argued with (like me!) over time.

Keep up the enthusiasm and hard work.

ttfn

John

By: Adam Williamson deja de trabajar para Mandriva « Mandriva Linux… Sonora

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:31:11 +0000

[...] Williamson deja de trabajar para Mandriva 3 12 2008 Según se lee en su propio blog, Adam Williamson dejará de trabajar para Mandriva al término de este año, parece que debido a [...]

By: NicCo

NicCo — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:29:55 +0000

We made an online petition for you:

http://mib.pianetalinux.org/miblight/2008/12/01/salviamo-adam-williamson/

And then comunicate it, in many sites:
I know, it’s a little thing, but we made that with love

Now there are already almost 600 signs, and only from yesterday

Many are pessimistic about that, but I hope You can use it, at least, as a sign of being a good and loved worker, in you future work

NicCo
MIB Team Founder
http://mib.pianetalinux.org

Excuse me, for my poor English

Most important:
For you father, I send you, all my best Augurs

By: kozaki

kozaki — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:05:50 +0000

Oh my
I do *agree* with most of what have been said here.
- First, even if i’m French (with an obviously better French level than English , i often use the English version of the Mandriva forums, half of the reason beeing your amazing presence there (especialy after imr left on the French side): i can’t recall an issue posted without you paying attention to it if nobody else did. It makes me volunteer to give even an uncomplete answer as i knew you *will* pass by and complete the answer whenever you can.
- Your help has also helped me to make more bug reports, as sooon as i noticed you did help correct it when needed and makes it usable by the devs/packagers.

As quoted, communication at Mandriva improved immeasurably for every English speaking ppl by your presence. You’ve helped both me and many many others countless times.
I’m looking forward to see what will happen to the gap between end users and contributors/developpers after/if you leave.
Dunno how much it costs Mandriva to have you workin? but i certainly wonder what it will cost the company to let you go!
All the best,
Cyrille L

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:02:03 +0000

Thanks. I’ll send you one. Are you on LinkedIn?

By: sxw123

sxw123 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:53:48 +0000

Adam.

Thank you. You brought so much to the Mandriva community. You have been a help to me and others in the forums.

Outside of France, I would have to say you have been the face of Mandriva. If a cost cutting measure to save the company removes the very people that make the company worth saving, then perhaps someone just wants to sell.

Thanks Adam. I would love a copy of your CV.