You wouldn't expect something like this to happen at any time, let alone on the eve of Mandriva Linux 2007 release. Last week, two Mandriva developers went on record saying that "Linux is not ready for the desktop". In a web log post entitled Why I'll never use Linux for my main desktop, Vincent Danen concluded: "This kind of thing is precisely why, for me, Linux belongs on the server. Now if those kernel-developing idiots would get their act together and give us a 2.6 kernel that was a) stable and B) supported for more than a week, then I'd really be pleased." Another Mandriva developer, Fabrice Facorat, agreed. In a post called Linux ready for Desktop? Of course not!, he had this to say: "For me when you have control over the environment and the hardware, Linux is ready: think servers, workstations, thin clients, kiosks. However when you have no control on the hardware, Linux is not ready because it somewhat lacks flexibility."
There you have it, right from the horse's mouth! From two guys who have been working for a Linux company, developing a popular desktop Linux distribution, for years! Yes, that's right, Mandriva Linux is not ready for your desktop! Don't waste your money buying it!
One really has to wonder about the future of a company which happily asks Gaël Duval to leave, yet is quite pleased to keep developers who publicly hint that they consider Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox and other kernel developers "idiots"! A perfect pre-release PR, non?
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, но ИМХО Боднар поднимает шум из ничего. Два инженера, задолбавшись собирать Мандриву, которая две недели никак не могла разродиться, пардон, зарелизиться (представляю, чего там у них в это время творилось), написали в блоге, где они все это видали. Посмотрите на претензии: ядро слишком часто обновляют- не угонишься и т.п. Мнение, естественно, не является ни коллективным мнением всех разработчиков Mandriva, ни официальной позицией компании, а конкретный разработчик имеет полное право на свое собственное мнение. В общем, классическую фразу "гребаный опенсорц" еще никто не отменял 
