Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

That's true. Really sad what happened to OpenSolaris project.

Also, my first distro was Conectiva. Used to work with deb packages. Then,
when Mandrake bought Conectiva, and name has change for Mandriva I stoped
using it. Just didn't enjoy rpm packages at the time.

But I'm already waiting for a beta iso from mageia to test it. ;]

Unfortunately they'll loose many users and fans. The name Mandriva was
carrying a great "weight". I hope mageia  can hand with this with community
support.

cheers,
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:14 PM, 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...
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