spinynorman Posted June 25, 2009 Report Share Posted June 25, 2009 OdinJobs, the largest technology job search engine, looks at the demand and median salary for the most popular distros here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 (edited) OdinJobs, the largest technology job search engine, looks at the demand and median salary for the most popular distros here. Interesting, thanks for the link! (although the fact that Redhat dominates the corporate world is well known) Edited June 26, 2009 by tux99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonseth17 Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I hope mandriva returns to that path again...sad ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I do find it strange that Mandriva doesn't even hit that list whatsoever. But they do need to sort their business side out, ensure that they deal with and help prospective business partners to get them going so that they can increase and sell the Mandriva products. Something of which they seem to have a hard time getting the ball rolling. On a side note, they have been making more communications recently (hopefully in a bid to improve their marketing) - however they seem to have changed from English to French - which doesn't help much since each profile has a language assigned, it wouldn't be too hard to deliver the appropriate communicate in the correct language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 (Aside point: The name Mandriva, what was originally Mandrake has not caught on. There was not a single position that used the new term. Mandrake however was still used and had an average demand of about 10 jobs a month).Ouch! I had expected that at least some francophone countries and/or Brasil (where Conectiva vcame from) would demand some Mandriva-experts. I hope that they get back on the right track. The product is top-quality, their business-skills and marketing skill are - as discussed earlier - a completely different thing. BTW: I had expected SUSE/Novell to be a bit more prominent these days. But apparently, fighting against Red Hat (which is admittedly damn stable) is a pretty tough job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 I have the impression those stats are made from US job postings only, so Brasil and/or French jobs don't get counted. Also as Mandriva is quite similar to Redhat/Fedora in many respects, Mandriva skills are transferable. One of the reasons why I like Mandriva at home is because I can mostly re-use my Redhat work knowledge (unlike with Ubuntu/Debian which is quite different). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac Medley Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 (edited) Based on this article and thread I decided to try Fedora 11. It felt more like Mandriva than Ubuntu, but it wasn't enough of Mandriva for me to want to switch. Mandriva feels like a much more polished product to me. It's all in the details I guess, little things like the Synaptic Package Manager not having a progress indicator, and I didn't see any simple way to add sources. Edited July 13, 2009 by Zac Medley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 13, 2009 Report Share Posted July 13, 2009 Synaptic does have a progress indicator, and it's not used in Fedora. Are you sure you didn't load Ubuntu instead? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zac Medley Posted July 14, 2009 Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Synaptic does have a progress indicator, and it's not used in Fedora. Are you sure you didn't load Ubuntu instead? :P That's what I thought I said, but maybe in an indirect way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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