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Developers fork Mandriva Linux, creating Mageia-> 1

Submitted by Anssi55 on Saturday September 18 2010, @08:56AM

Anssi55 writes "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 the trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided to fork the project. 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."
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Mandriva fighting against fate-> 0

Submitted by on Monday June 14 2010, @02:13PM

An anonymous reader writes "The vice president of Mandriva NPO wrote an interesting blogpost about the difficulties Mandriva is facing to guarantee its future. The head of the company and the employees seems to be figthing : http://olivier-mejean.fr/WordPress/?p=87

"These last days, the projects have emerged and tensions were very high among employees of Mandriva.

The ghost of a foundation is back on center stage with Wallix (with apparently participation of François Bancilhon and Stanislas Bois in a way that I do not know yet), but if this project was presented to Mandriva, nothing has been done towards the community and again, Arnaud Laprévote did not want to say anything. However, this project seemed very badly put together, including that little should be done regarding social part and business part does not show any modification. Employees reactions have been very mixed (it is a euphemism ).

IEurope also came back to the front of the stage, offering to surrender nearly one and half million euros, but before declaration of insolvency (thus cutting off the foot for a possible takeover) with support rather unexpected of Occam Capital! But again, my little finger told me that the employees were quite reluctant to accept this solution that does not seem to maintain at least the medium term interests of the group’s employees adequately, and the philosophy of Mandriva Linux."

Confidences I have had, these projects did not inspire much confidence."
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Mandriva Linux 2010 code name Adelie is finally ou-> 0

Submitted by ennael on Wednesday November 04 2009, @03:53PM

ennael writes ""We finally did it. Mandriva Linux 2010 is out and comes with many improvements and innovations. We still go on supporting in same level of integration GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2. Support for netbooks is improved as users can now easily test Moblin 2.0 environment. "Smart desktop" coming from european research is now fully integrated and is the first real working semantic desktop. Mandriva Control Center also bring improvements in tools: new netprofile management tool, gui for Tomoyo security framework, parental control,...

A big thank to our community who worked hard and made this release possible.

Release Notes : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Notes
2010 Tour : http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Tour" Link To Original Source"
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