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Comment Re:2050? They may actually make it (Score 1) 206

The problem is that the last (2nd generation) reactor built successfully was started in 2002. Built from 1991 to 1999. Flamanville EPR is a 3rd generation reactor built by a new generation of people. That's the reason why so many problems happened during this huge project. It was meant to be the prototype for this generation but was slowed down by many technical and organisational problems... and maybe an excessively precautionary approach to not upset the population... France sold 2 EPR to China and they are already in production at Taïshan (started in 2018 and 2019). What precautionary principle ? :-D 1 EPR sold to Finland (Olikuto) should start next year.

Comment Re: If I'm looking for a distro not based on Ubunt (Score 1) 92

Why does having a control panel that works require a whole distribution? Why can't this be something released to work with existing distros?

The original Mandrake (Mandriva / Mageia) distro is a 1998 fork of RedHat 5.1 to provide better graphical admin tools and a more refined GUI. Yes, it's the Linux distro for the masses since a long time and it's good !

Comment Re:If I'm looking for a distro not based on Ubuntu (Score 1) 92

Oy vey. Fine. I clicked the first thing in the docs that I might want to do with this distro and found this:

https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/3/en/content/rpmdrake.html

Oh. My. Goodness. It's like we went back in time to 1999. Windows 98 is more attractive. There's nothing "excellent" about this software so far.

You totally miss the point about Mageia Control Center if you think it's main part is RPMdrake !

Comment Re:If I'm looking for a distro not based on Ubuntu (Score 2) 92

Google for "Mageia Control center" and you will find why this distribution is unique with excellent graphical admin tools (inherited from Mandriva and Mandrake before). YaST Control Center for Open Suse is another set of good graphical admin tools. And I mean "real" admin tools. Not a dialog box to change the color of the fonts !

Comment Re:Okay, I'll bite (Score 5, Informative) 92

Mageia (Mandriva, Mandrake...) have the best and most complete graphical admin tools of all the Linux distros. By far ! It's probably the most user friendly Linux distro out there. It's main fault is it's lack of celebrity. Google images of the "Mageia Control Center" The closest thing in the Linux world is YaST Control Center for Open Suse. It also provides a very clean Plasma integration.

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