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Basing part of your criticism on the fact that there wasn't any noticable additions from their acquisition of Lycoris is just wrong. According to their press releases, the Lycoris acquisition happened in July, and Mandriva Linux 2006 went beta August 8. If you read the release announcement, This is the first release to offer a smooth transition from Conectiva Linux 10 (which they acquired in March). It does say that some of the Lycoris technology made it in to the Discovery/LX edition (not having seen Lycoris before, I couldn't tell which packages), but knowing from past merger experiences (Novell/Suse, Novell/Ximian, HP/Compaq, etc), these mergers take a lot of work to get both product lines integrated into one. Now, if the next major release doesn't have any of these Lycoris features, then you can complain. Give it some time.

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