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Mandrakesoft Acquires Conectiva
rednaxel writes "This morning, both companies issued press releases about the merge. French Mandrakesoft is acquiring all shares of brazilian Conectiva for a total amount of 1.79 million EUR (2.3 million USD) in stock." CNet has coverage of the merger as well. From the article: "This won't elevate us to the status of Red Hat or Novell/SuSE yet, of course, but this is a significant growth for us..."
Sorry to be a bit unfunny, but...
Mandrakesoft, the number one European Linux company, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Conectiva, the number one Linux company in Brazil and Latin America.
Dont you just love thoose PR people and their lies...
Niggersoft Announces GNAA/Hard
Misha Borovsky (AP) Moscow, Soviet Russia - Niggersoft chairman and CEO jesuitx today announced the private beta test of the first operating system suited towards the needs of today's gay niggers, GNAA/Hard. The OS is intended to grow at a faster rate of development and use, and be based on famous Marxist Richard Stallman's OS, GNU/Hurd.
"Hard represents so much in the OS world", said GNAA President and Niggersoft Board-member timecop." Our private beta now loads the system BIOS, then displays "Hello World" in rainbow colors. Our codebase at this point is now roughly 500% more mature than GNU/Hurd."
When asked why he felt a microkernel was the best choice for the future of the OS, GNAA ohsix simply stated, "no u r". It is the belief of this journalist that ohsix was trying to point out the major flaws of pure monolithic kernel structure, as seen in Operating Systems like Linux, which are known for poor security and an utter lack of intuitive use or overall quality.
GNAA member JacksonBrown told reporters, "Hard is going to be the best OS available by Q2 2014. Unfortunately, we are not planning a public beta until Summer of 2010, as our purely microkernel based structure will require around 30 Gibibytes of RAM to run the base servers and daemons. However, if Moore's law continues to apply, any Alienware based system will do."
It is rumored that Hard received it's name due to the similarity to GNU/Hurd, and to represent the rigidity of the massive niggers' cocks that are developing the OS.
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ZonkISAKockSuker.
Mandrake still sucks because it's a French-based distro. Who wants to get snail on them or associate themselves with a country of whiny pussies? Seriously now, Mandrake has an image problem outside of Europe. And the Mandrake documentation is tainted by francais slipups.
I would venture to say "not that much". Conectiva was apparently the first Linux distro to cater to countries outside of the US and Europe.
.br) and won some obscure awards for being the "best OS".
It was based out of Brazil (which doesn't give it much weight as far as I'm concerned as I wouldn't trust a pile of shit from
For a company that recently claimed bankruptcy I just can't see this merger as being fruitful in the future.
There is no such thing as a "merge" except maybe in investorspeak. One company buys another, that's it.
Speak truth to power.
Excuse me? You really think that the majority of .br is worthwhile? Fuck that. Ban the entire country as they are nothing but legal spammers and hackers.
Fuck off and die you worthless slut.
And yes, I'm an asshole, but I already knew that.
So, you look at all the good that AI's done over the year and damn the entire organization for one lousy choice? If you really want to go after an organization that's caused multiple counts of genocide by meddling in other country's private affairs, I've got a great one for you: the US government.
it should be Suse rolls into town and Madrakesoft promptly waves white flags welcoming Suse into Paris.
I think the invisible hand of the market has its middle finger extended
--A wise old fart named SC0RN
Novell buys Suse
n ux, Then get Trustix and TinySofa.
Mandrake buys Conectiva, they should then pickup PClinuxOS, SAMLinux.
Come on Debian , cough up some money and buyout Xandros/Linspire/Libranet. While your at it, blow away Knoppix and every Knoppix Dist out there, and buy them out too. Klaus would love you for that Im sure.
Redhat should then in turn buyout CentOS/WhiteBOX/TaoLinux/Linare/LormaLinux/K12-Li
Gentoo should then pick up Vidalinux,SourceMage, Sourcerer, OneBase, NayvnOS and Arch linux for a Pretty penny (To end the Source Distro Wars) , or finish their Gentoo Installer project, thus leaving Vidalinux in the dust.
Slackware then in turn will have to buy out Vector, SLAX, MiniSlack, and BuffaloLinux. Im sure after Patrick Volkerding gets over his illness, hell have enough money for that anway.
Whod I forget?
"God of Rock, thank you for this chance to kick ass. "
Troll, really? Ready a history book, mod. It's not unpatriotic, it's just realistic.