Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

[Giles Orr]

On 18 September 2010 22:14, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> From Slashdot:
>>
>> "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution
>> were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of
>> Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development
>> community -- including the core developers -- has decided to fork the
>> project (http://www.mageia.org/). The new Linux distribution, named
>> Mageia , will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be
>> set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have
>> decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still
>> welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to
>> establishing the new distribution."
>
> I suspect that this has taken place ~5 years too late...
>
> The project had the supporting organization fall out from under it
> once already; for it to happen again does not look very good.
>
> This is the *serious* downside of tying systems to the vagaries of
> supporting corporations, which have a strange tendency to:
>  a) Get bought by someone else (MySQL, Sun, Oracle, ...)
>  b) Go out of business (Mandrake has done this twice now.  Oh, no,
> they now call it
>     Mandriva...)
>  c) Decide that the project isn't in their shareholders' interests
> anymore.  (RIP OpenSolaris)
>
> Mandriva mayn't be dead, but things are certainly smelling a bit funny...

'The new "ZombieLinux" distribution is looking for brains!  To help
right code of course ...  (Nose plugs optional.)'

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