Hi
I’m or I was long time debian user. I used few other distros but I stick with debian for last more or less 10 years. Landuke brings me here brings me here and that statmen should be on your front page.
Do we have (on this forum) a place to ask stupid questions such as
what kind repos we have in open mandriva.
In debian we have [(deban, debian security, debian proposed updates, debian backports) each one devides to main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2.in fedora /redhat we have main repo we have epl copr.
What is a structure and philosophy behind open-mandriva repos
First, welcome. The Support topic is a good place to ask technical questions, and this is a good enough place to ask non-technical questions. We also have topics in other languages.
The repositories we have are:
main - the core of the distribution and where most of the FOSS is
unsupported now renamed to extra- FOSS that we make our best effort to provide, but may need extra support from the software project’s maintainers
restricted - software that may have parts that violate some tenets of FOSS
non-free - software that is or contains a significant amount of proprietary code (i.e. Steam and the nvidia graphics driver)
The versions of the distribution are:
Rock - the “stable” version that gets security updates and bug fixes.
ROME - the “rolling” version that has more recent versions of software
Cooker - the “development” version primarily for testing, developing, and packaging the distribution.
Each distribution has those repositories available. So, very similar to debian.
If you don’t find what you are looking for, try an Internet search. One can find out a lot from documentation or forum posts at other Linux distros. If user finds something written for another distro but you have some doubt ask at OpenMandriva Chat.
For serious technical issues and package/feature requests please file a bug report here.
Note: We are a small group. All the contributors and developers here are unpaid volunteers.
You can make OpenMandriva grow and improve by getting involved
Any help with testing would be appreciated whether one is technically proficient or a very non-technical user. The more people and more hardware we can get involved the better we can make OMLx releases and packaging. We do a lot of testing in VM’s as well. Developers tend to use Qemu, most user level testers use VirtualBox.
