Mandriva S.A., through Charles Schulz, posted a very interesting announcement on their blog, asking users to vote for the new name of the Mandriva Linux distribution.
Wait, what? Why a new name? Well, long story short, it looks like Mandriva S.A. wants to separate the Mandriva community and the distribution from the company.
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Dear users, friends, fans and supporters of the Mandriva Linux distribution,
after reviewing all your messages, suggestions, ideas and comments, Mandriva SA took the decision to transfer the responsibility of the Mandriva Linux distribution to an independent entity.
With its commercial operations now focused on innovative open source software for the corporate market, Mandriva joins the OW2 Consortium to leverage its global community and outreach.
Paris July 5, 2012 – OW2, the international open source community for infrastructure software, and Mandriva, the company that gave the world one of the most popular Linux distributions, announce today that Mandriva
Mandriva is in the final stages of launching the community edition of Mandriva Linux. And they are asking for your input – to help choose a name for that community edition. What do you need to do? Here is the official announcement: Starting now, we have opened a poll that will let you pick the [...]
Paris, France – February, 24th, 2010 – Mandriva, Europe's leading Linux publisher, today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services.
As explained in the previous blogposts here, Mandriva SA would like to move forward with the creation of the foundation and the setup of an independent project in charge of developing the existing Mandriva Linux distribution.
A conversation has started and I must say that I am happy with the feedback wether on the dedicated mailing list or on the community forums.
In his usual man-of-a-few-words manner today, Jean-Manuel Croset, Mandriva COO, announced that enough funds have been secured to allow Mandriva to keep its doors open and continue development. With Croset saying little else, users at least have a nugget of good news to sustain them. Last month Croset solicited user input as to the direction the company might go.
Most of us are still sitting in the meeting room, but I think it’s important to let everybody know about the results of this fruitful meeting day in Paris.
We (see the list of participants below) have met in Paris for most of the day and we discussed the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution.
As explained in previous blogs, Mandriva SA wants to create a fully independent foundation that
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A month ago we reported that two versions of Mandriva were coming soon after a number of its developers had left the project to form the Mageia Linux distribution after Mandriva's parent company was facing some financial hardship and its future was questionable during this period.
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