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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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:06PM
The first of many, unfortunately. The pestilence cannot be stopped, it appears.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @06:39PM
Ignoring the fact no mention of this is made in TFA, what is System D and why do people get so worked up over it?
Not used Linux in a while myself.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @07:31PM
http://systemdsucks.com [systemdsucks.com]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:37PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2015, @08:39PM
You best learn a little bit about what systemd is and what it is doing to the linux landscape.
Even if you don't use linux, the moral of the story is important to know for how this behavior is infecting everything we do here.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bot on Wednesday May 27 2015, @09:18PM
Wait a minute, systemd is supposed to make businesses flourish on linux support, when all you needed before was to RTFM. An unneeded intermediary between kernel and userland bloating up with new functions, arbitrary defaults and a tendency not to care when breaking stuff cries PAID SUPPORT as nothing else.
Their error was to start too early.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by el_oscuro on Wednesday May 27 2015, @10:56PM
You mean they have adopted the Oracle business model?
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