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Conectiva Linux 7.0 Review

Posted by michael on from the land-down-under dept.

Patrick Mullen writes: "The Duke of URL has posted their review of Conectiva Linux 7.0. Conectiva Linux was the first distribution to support APT-RPM, which cures most of the ails of typical RPMs. Their latest release even bundles a graphical front-end to APT, and brings the worlds of Debian and Red Hat together."

2 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Site only in Spanish and Portugese? by adebater · · Score: 4, Informative

    try
    http://en.conectiva.com/download/

  2. Connectiva employs many kernel mantainers by Pac · · Score: 4, Informative

    Like other major distributions, the brazilian Connectiva employs many people closely related to Linux development.

    Marcelo Tosatti was recently announced as the new head mantainer over the 2.4 stable kernel tree. Rik Van Riel is known for his work in the memory management subsystem and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo works with IPX.

    The point here is not to praise Connectiva (or Red Hat or anyone), but to notice that it is perfectly possible to run a profitable company and care for the development community at the
    same time.