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It seems that a great Linux distribution has now been laid to rest. Mandrivia closed its doors today. It is a sad day for me personally as it was one of the first proper user friendly distributions, taking Red Hat's RPM's and building upon them for desktop use there was nothing close at the time. Their Graphical installer was stuff of legends when poor Windows and other Linux distributions were still on console installs, Their Partitioning application had no peers, the Windows equivalent was Partition Magic and it wasn't fit to lick Diskdrake' boots. Okay that's just a personal opinion.
Anyway with great sadness here is the TFA
http://uk.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5?r=US
For decades, Mandriva has been trying to take on Microsoft Windows with a Linux version of a desktop PC. Its claim to fame was a deal in 2007 with the Nigerian government in which it beat out Microsoft to put its flavor of Linux on 17,000 PCs used by Nigerian schoolchildren. It also had some success in Malaysia. But by 2012, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy, a situation that had happened several times since its early days, in 1998.
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(Score: 2) by skater on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:56PM
I played with Mandrake once or twice, but I mostly used it for the partitioning manager. It really was a lot better than the console-based one that came with my distro of choice (Slackware), which was useful in the more complex situations. The submitter is right about that part of it, at least.
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:38PM
Even Kbuntu is having issues
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/05/kubuntu-project-lead-asked-to-step-down-by-ubuntu-community-council [omgubuntu.co.uk]
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:53PM
Kubuntu is set to use system D in its next release. Grab your ankles, KDE people!
(Score: 2) by present_arms on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:42PM
Kde has already said it will depend on systemd in around six months, this was back in March I believe so they have already grabbed their ankles...
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 1) by stormreaver on Thursday May 28 2015, @01:26PM
...this was back in March I believe so they have already grabbed their ankles...
I don't understand the allusion. Given the prevalent irrational hatred of systemd, though, I'll presume it wasn't intended to be flattering.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @08:23PM
To grab your ankles you have to bend over. Ok, you could bend you knees and crouch/squat, but we'll assume bending over in this case. The implication here is that you are bending over to prepare to be fucked up the arse.