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Mandriva Gone - R.I.P.

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 27 2015, @04:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-could-have-been dept.

present_arms wrote in with:

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: 1) by Placenta on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:04PM

    by Placenta (5264) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:04PM (#188801)

    What's your point?

    The package management system in use is independent from what software is installed and how it's configured.

    Just using RPM doesn't make a distro Red Hat-like.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:57PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:57PM (#188832) Journal

    I remember learning that the hard way by trying to mix and match RedHat and Mandrake RPMs (and the occasional SUSE package and one other distro I'm not remembering). I got myself into a bunch of weird dependency situations, lots of linking problems, and the occasional mystery bug.

    After that, I think I did Slackware for a short bit and then went down the Linux from Scratch rabbit hole, which really educated me as to why I was running into the problems I was running into while mixing and matching those RPMs.