Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:14:57PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> 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...)

Mandriva was the merger of Mandrake and Conectiva.

>  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...

I won't miss it.  It was always the redhat like linux that was much
worse than redhat.

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Len Sorensen
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