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Interview With Gaël Duval of Mandrake Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the the-french-side-of-things dept.

jukal writes "Open for Business's Timothy R. Butler talked with Mandrake co-founder Gaël Duval about the company's past, present, and future. Worth a read, clip: "GD: For one year, we had a so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on that. ""

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  1. My prejudice by Tester · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've been around for quite a while and to me Mandrake is still RedHat+KDE.. Or as I like to call it "unethical RedHat". And everytime I see something about them I have that prejudice. Even tho I've seen their recent distribution and they seemed quite good as a desktop distribution...

    Am I the only one?

  2. What a bunch of crap by Screaming+Lunatic · · Score: 3, Flamebait
    GD: For one year, we had a so-called "World Class Management" team that left us in a very bad financial situation, and engaged the company in ventures (such as e-learning) that we should never have been involved with. But that's all part of our history now, so I'd prefer to not dwell too much on that.

    The above quote is the answer to one question out of about a dozen. 3 lines out of a 150 line article. And is misrepresenative of the article. Duval answers the question and moves on. He tries not to bitch, he tries not to complain. What's this "I love X distro, Mandrake sucks!" crap?

    I mod this Slashdot story -1 Troll. Despite the fact it was a decent interview.

    If you don't use Mandrake that's fine. Is it kind of a Newbie-Linux distro? You could argue that. It was the first distro I used.

    There is place in the Linux-world for as many distros as anyone wants to put out. Deal with it.