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Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva
An anonymous reader writes "With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. '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. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"
I heard they acquired Conectiva earlier.
Come on editors, READ YOUR OWN DAMN SITE.
Come on... the story is right on the front page still... same title... Are you people completely blind?
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
This is like the third still-on-the-front-page dupe this week, and it's not April 1st.
I heard they acquired Conectiva earlier.
Come on editors, READ YOUR OWN DAMN SITE.
Don't make me start my day over, CowboyNeal! I'm almost home!
I thought it's already done. Am I wrong?
Conectiva's former owners must have done good business. As we can read at here MandrakeSoft paid for it once yesterday too...
I have a really elegant proof for Fermat's last theorem. If this sig was only a bit longer...
Acquired and created a Dupe? God's sake editors, scroll down and see the stories on the main page!
it's on the same day! on the same front page!
How many times can they acquire the same company in one day.
dupe!
...It's evidently a big deal then.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/24/ 1546209&tid=163&tid=147
Gees, not even left the front page yet!
E = m c^3 Don't drink and derive E = m c^3
Uh... http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/24/1546209.s html?tid=163&tid=147
they acquired Connectiva?
What's the competition - I guess SUSE doesn't count anymore.
Slashdot to Acquire Repost
Does anyone still use Connectiva? I haven't heard anything from them in years.
Its a duplicate. Nothing to see here. Move along.
...but that would fit with the site.
9 .s html?tid=163&tid=147
It's still on the front page!
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/02/24/154620
Find out about the Lexus Rx400h Hybrid!
It's so good, they bought it twice!
^---------^ Holy overreactions Batman!
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future? Holy shit!
They want to make sure we got the message, "Mandrake to Acquire Conectiva". It's like when you say something to yourself several times, so you don't forget it...
In other news, Mandrake acquired Connectiva.
Personally I think Mandrake is one of the best distro's for the beginner and anything that helps them build on that is fine by me. Although personally I wish they would take a more serious look at unifying the look and feel like RedHat or SUSE, but I'm sure that will come with time. I proclaim it conectivadrake! Muha!
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How do they have the money to do this? Weren't they almost bankrupt about a year ago?
(this is a joke)
Come on guys, have some sympathy.
...
I mean, once Mandrake aquired Connectiva, they had to reboot to load the new kernel. It's only natural that you'd see the message twice.
Shessh
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
I think it's time for some new editors.
The % of shitty stories have sky-rocketed in recent months. Not to mention, rediculous dupes such as these.
it was shortly after they acquired Connectiva.
I though MDK just recently became financially stable, now they want to increase their company size? What will they really gain by becomming a much larger company releasing mostly the same exact product?
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
Makedrakesoft, Connectiva and the Broadcast Flag are part of the OSDN network
Go to the previous posting of this story. Find all the +5 posts and repeat them. Score karma! Repeat.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
...Then why doesn't everyone submit the duped story en masse and force the editors to clean their queue of hundreds of duped submissions? Pretty rude, I know. But maybe after a few times they'll get the message....
Before we go off and slam the editors for a truly horrible week, maybe we should reflect on ourselves. I mean, who is really so blind that the same stories keep getting submitted?? People, check the damn site before rushing to submit a story! You're not planting a flag and won't go into the history books just for getting a story submission on /.
If thou see a fair woman pay court to her, for thus thou wilt obtain love
I understand Ladbrook is giving 9:1 currently
Help fight continental drift.
Can't the editors at least look at the front page to see if the story is a dupe? Sometimes I think they do it just to rattle our bones.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
previously reported here
Good lord, all you have to do is scroll down, the dupe is on the same fucking page! Is there any kind of accountability at all with ./ editors?
Does anyone know where I can get some Post-It notes? I have this wicked idea about creating a Super Mario mural...
!ekoj on si aixelsyD
Guess the editors thought that meant "N"ew
Byron Miller for Congress.
In other news, time now runs backwards.
the other story showed up.
perception is reality
bravo on the racist joke. real classy
What's a "sig"?
right here
Déjà Vu. It's like the Matrix. Not because Neo had a Déjà Vu in it, but because it sucks.
No existe.
Just an example:
How? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sfraggle (212671) on Thursday February 24, @11:27AM (#11767199)
(http://fraggle.alkali.org/)[ Reply to This ]
Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
by crow (16139) on Thursday February 24, @11:32AM (#11767258)
(http://www.votecrow.com/ | Last Journal: Monday July 01, @01:30PM)
Simple isn't it? I think we should all do this and maybe the guys running
*tears up plans and flushes them down the toilet*
NEXT!
you think a dupped story is bad? some idiots have dupped this article's first post like 50 times!! what is this world coming to?!
What's a "sig"?
Don't knock Slashdot for catering to people with alzheimer's. They're people too!
It's OK! I'm a limo driver!
Troll?
No.
Funny at best. Offtopic deserved.
no subject
you think a dupped story is bad? some idiots have dupped this article's first post like 50 times!! what is this world coming to?!
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Enterprise downlaoded more than SG-1?!
Hey, I was born in Mexico, so I'm allowed to say these things! I think....
The real path to male liberation
I repeat myself when I'm distressed... I repeat myself when I'm distressed... I repeat myself when I'm distressed... I repeat...
... that we can't moderate the article -1 redundant.
In fact, this brings up a good point. Maybe such an article-moderation system would give the editors feedback as to which articles we want to see.
bash: rtfm: command not found
The one-plus-one-equals-linux dept. needs to have lunch with the changing-of-hands dept.
Being a Mandrake user for several years, I am happy to see that they overcame their financial difficulties and are in a position to expand.
...etc.
...etc.
Apart from the botched 9.2 upgrade debacle, they have a distro that I can use for a Linux home network without spending too much time on it. I have four machines running Linux at home, and don't want to spend a lot of time on each configuring it.
They are also familiar and friendly enough for my kids to use it as their only desktop. They get to play their MP3, use FireFox or Konqueror, use Open Office for homework,
Moreover, it is also perfectly good as a server for LAMP, Samba,
Go Mandrake!
Folks, at least scan the front page. You had me hitting my refresh button in 14 different combos before I realized that it was YADA YADA YADA (Yet Another Dupe, Again... Yet Another Dupe, Again... Yet Another Dupe, Again...)
I'ts not european, it was bought by Novell, a U.S. company.
For serious, if you people want to stop seeing the same stories, check out /.'s search function - it's real easy. It's saved me and the Eds time by me searching real quick. Do it first, we'll see what happens after that.
ofcourse not ... look at the earlier story, all the words were different:
"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..."
And the new one
"With a press release Mandrakesoft has announced the acquisition of Conectiva. '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. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Mandrakesoft's size and R&D capabilities.'"
it's one thing when the posts are on different days, but this is just too sad
-Tim Louden
Is it redundant if I say that this story is a dupe?
Slashdot to stop posting dupes. ok, maybe not.
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
Be fair and balanced. Report both sides of the story!
That was My post 11767258 in the original story.
is usually a glitch in the Matrix
One is primarily under business and the other is under Mandrakesoft, so clearly (this is said with some sarcastic tones, I know many of you can't pick up on those) the great editors of this site (again, sarcasm, you smartasses) are trying to distinguish between business an Mandrakesoft... it's really very simple.
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Wait, the editors are just stupid, sorry.
I like suggestions, but I don't like contributing towards them.
Mandrakesoft has acquired Conectiva, again.
Slashdot gets stuck in feedback loop.
After I read the first story, I thought, wow... Was I dreaming?
When the 2nd story came out I knew, I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was awake during work!
Post the summary in French at least.
This article has been brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
The older story focussed on Conectiva, while this story is more about Mandrake. So that's French on top and Brazilian down below. Just the way this Cowboy likes it.
For the first time ever I emailed that this was a dupe to the editors before it was put on the front page.
I even linked to the story and mentioned it was on the frontpage.
So now we know they not only don't read their site, but they don't read email about their site. Which leads to the question of... what do you actually do? You don't edit. You submit anything Roland whatever posts. You post shit that has already been posted. You let Michael post amaingly misleading items.
Bah I'm done. Well heres one less subscriber...
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
Nuff said. I've been reading /. for years. /. look so amatuerish.
It was much better editorially speaking in the beginning.
Dups make
Pick up a few good mirrors on this side of the pond? Im wondering if it will take until Christmas for me to get my hands on a 10.2 OE DVD. (yes i do know that it will be a month or so for CE) First On Topic Post!
Any person using FTFY or editing my postings agrees to a US$50.00 charge
from the one-plus-one-equals-linux dept.
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..."
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Zonk> Damn slashdot junkies are calling us on our sloppiness. What'da we do?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> I read somewhere that redundancy is the mother of invention.
CmdrTaco> What?
Zonk> I know you are... But what am I?
CmdrTaco> To hell with 'em. We're getting paid peanuts, isn't redundancy the mother of invention?
Zonk> Who's on first?
CmdrTaco>Yes
Zonk>What?
What if Digg added local news and a Slashdot inspired comment karma system? ---
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Oh no, first they aquired it, then they have plans to aquire it... time must've started going backwards... Everyone, grab something and hold on!
Everytime that Slashdot dupes a story and I load up the homepage, I get this weird feeling, much worse than deja vu :P Like I just got sucked back a few days.. or in this case, a few hours
On CowboyNeal / Timothy days, I feel like that all damn day.. talk about net-lag
Slashdot sucks
but didn't this happen recently on a story about a star exploding? Maybe, Mandrakesoft (star logo) is coming completely back from bankruptcy, and therefore this had to be reported twice.
It's really hard to be sure, but I could almost swear...
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
I predict CowboyNeal's favorite band to be Asleep at the Wheel
And they want me to subscribe to this shit? Hah!
Jesus Christ! It's still on the friggin' FRONT PAGE you idiots!
Here. Let me help you.
while(storyExists())
{
Publish();
}
I note several problems with this code. Do you note any problems with your STUPID EDITING???
Un-satisfied non-customer, and unlikely to be one
given the state of things.
Oh wait, maybe this is the advertisement version of the post...
sheesh.......
Don't make me start my day over, CowboyNeal! I'm almost home!
NEO: Whoa. Deja vu.
TRINITY: What did you just say?
NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?
NEO: An article on Mandrake acquiring Conectiva posted on Slashdot and then I saw another article just like it.
TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same article?
NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure.
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hello lameness filter
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Profit?
..if Mandrake were to aquire Conectiva.
Quit posting fucking dupes!
At least I got to acknowledge the fact Mandrake sucks in more than one day.
(rather than european descent) brazilian! Now back to reality.
I've been using Mandrake since 8.0. But lately it's started annoying me a bit. It just doesn't seem all that polished or professional. I've avoided updating to 10.1 because of all the reported problems with it (from personal accounts from friends).
Their tools are okay, but I tend to just use the command line these days (faster). The tools don't integrate into the system at all. I mean, why use perl with GTK bindings to write your tools, when your default desktop is KDE ? It just looks all out of place. A lot of the dialogs and text in their tools just screams "amateur".
I just want something that looks and feels like it was put together by professionals. Finely tuned and polished.
I'm sticking with it for the time being, but I'm definitely on the look out for something better - Ubuntu being my first preference (if I can get used to Gnome).
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
Your username fits perfectly with the talk of dupes and whatnot....
=P
Keep your eyes to the sky.
How do you say "dupe" in Portuguese and French?
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
C'mon CowboyNeal, CmdrTaco, Zonk, Timothy, et. al. would it be too much to ask for you people to check published articles over the past 24 to 48 hours? Keep this up and the Dailyshow will mocking the great slashdot.
TWO DUPES IN ONE DAY
Two dupes in one day
dupe
dupe
dupe
dupe
DOLTS!!
Yeah, yeah, yeah... dupe
But, for companies, mergers and acquisitions is a huge deal. it can determine the path and success for a company for many years down the road. What I want to see is how this will impact thier valuations. Also, I would like to see how they avoid some of the common pitfalls, what are thier intentions?
Stranded.org
IT'S ON THE SAME FRIGGIN PAGE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Scroll down to the bottom and....DAMN, lookie, it's there there too!
Maybe it's time I stop coming to this site since it's nothing but dupes and editors changing comments and article submissions anyway.
It is now official - Slashdot has confirmed: Slashdot Dupes are here to stay
Yet another duped story bolstered the imitative Better Slashdot Dupes psyche when recently IDC confirmed that Better Slashdot Dupes accounts for a majority of all news stories. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Better Slashdot Dupes has copied more stories, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Better Slashdot Dupes is replicating in an exponential fashion, as fittingly exemplified by duping fastest in the recent Slashdot comprehensive duplicity story postings test.
You don't need to be a CmdrTaco [cmdrtaco.net] to predict Better Slashdot Dupes' future. The electrons are on the screen: Better Slashdot Dupes faces a repetitious future. In fact, the future is all copies for Better Slashdot Dupes because Better Slashdot Dupes is reproducing. Things are looking very good for Better Slashdot Dupes. As many of us are already aware, Better Slashdot Dupes continues to replicate more stories. Green ink flows like a river of money. Frontpage Slashdot Dupes is the most promising of them all, having gained 93% over other duped stories.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the (reciprocal) numbers.
Obviously Blind Slashdot Dupes leader Timothy states that there are 7000 Slashdot Dupes each year. How many stories due to Blind Slashdot Dupes are there? Let's see. The number of Frontpage versus Obvious dupes on Slashdot is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Obvious dupes. Less Obvious Dupe stories on Slashdot are about half of the volume of Obvious dupes. Therefore there are about 700 Less Obvious Dupes. A recent article put Frontpage Slashdot Dupes at about 80 percent of the Better Slashdot Dupes share. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Frontpage Slashdot Dupes. This is consistent with the number of Frontpage Slashdot Dupes showing as Slashdot stories.
Due to the fortunes of Linux, OSDN, and so on, Frontpage Slashdot Dupes doubled business and overtook Obvious Slashdot Dupes. Now Obvious Slashdot Dupes are cloning, turning over an increasing number of dupes.
All major surveys show that Better Slashdot Dupes has steadily redoubled in news stories. Better Slashdot Dupes is multiplying its pace and its long term prospects are exponential. If Better Slashdot Dupes continues this growth, it will be at the expense of regular stories. Better Slashdot Dupes continues to copy. Nothing short of a miracle could save real stories at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Better Slashdot Dupes are here to stay.
Fact: Better Slashdot Dupes are here to stay.
Deja vu all over again.
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
Read Heinlein's 1953 Revolt in 2100, now more than ever.
It seems like, as we step forward, the story goes backward. Someone tell Micheal to post a story:
Mandrakesoft thinking of acquiring Conectiva?
Posted by CowboyNeal on 2005-02-26 4:09
from the we-changed-the-Matrix dept
An anonymous reader writes "With a front page dupe release Slashdot has announced the acquisition of Groundhog Day. 'Slashdot, the worldwide number one repeated news site, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Groundhog Day, the number one repeated day movie in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. This acquisition is expected to increase significantly Slashdot's size and R&D (repeats and dupes) capabilities.'"
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Please look at the front page before you post. I understand that it may take some effort to look through past days, but please, no dupes on the same page. That is just sad. If you care anything for this site, please try a bit harder, and read your own content.
Merlin - What is that root?
Morgana - Mandrake, the essence of it can prolong the act of love
Merlin - And if too much is taken?
Morgana - Pain and Death.
Relevanice? None. Just liked that bit in Borman's Excalibur.
And if your wondering what my distro is, it's SuSE, because she wears short skirts and big black leather boots...
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
I love your dupes I love your flamewars I love your bad grammar I love your poor editing I love your missing poll options I love hot grits on Natalie Portman I love your goatse.cx links I love CowboyNeal I love the karma whores I love the slashdot effect I love it all... no matter how crappy and poor designed you may be you got character... and thats what's important.
now where can i buy a t-shirt?
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
So.. if you want to get your story submitted to slashdot, just pick one that's on the front page already?
Why not just cook up a script that processes the rss feed and pumps the contents back to slashdot as new story submissions with a variable time delay?
CmdrTaco obviously has a self-esteem issue. This whole dupe phenomenon is just a ploy for him to see how many people actually read his site, and thus, give his self-confidence a boost. If we stop replying to these dupe stories, they will go away - no longer serving their purpose!
Try SuSe. I moved from Mandrake to SuSe, more because of hardware failure, than anything else. It's KDE setup is nice, and it's Gnome isn't too bad. The "Packman" repository is the SuSe equalivilent of PLF. Yast is better than Mandrakes franken-tool approach to configuration.
OMFG! It's a DUPE!!!!!!!!! Help, help, HELP!!!!!
For God's sake, people, if you see it's a dupe, and there's no additional value in it for you, DON'T READ IT. Why is this so hard?
You remind me of all those people who complain about "how bad Star Trek has gotten", but keep on watchin', and keep on bitchin'.
You complain about the S/N ratio on Slashdot these days...Guess what? YOU'RE THE NOISE.
(Yes, I feel better now, thank you.)
"Don't blame the log for the fire." --Andrew Ratshin
One-plus-one-equals-the-changing-of-hands dept...
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
The announcement is on the Conectiva's web site (http://www.conectiva.com.br - both portuguese and english). Fusion of enterprises mean only one thing: revolution.
The free software moviment is shaking the industry and big players are investing big money on the initiative. The future is clouded. The veil of the dark side has fallen. The Linux wars begun!
Ronaldo Faria Lima
E-mail:ronaldo@ronaldolima.eti.br
Home page: http://www.ronaldolima.eti.br
story involving 2 companies deserves two stories on /.
Get your torrents...
In soviet Russia, Connectiva acquires Mandrake!
Hehehe, indeed it was, crow, my friend.
/. very seriously. I mostly just read comments for the amusing trolls and the RARE funny, non-obvious joke.
/. is just a running gag-line on 3 day-old geek news.
I just felt like "duping the dupe," so to speak, and yours was the first score-5 post on the list. Karma's not the issue here, as I have plenty of that.
Perhaps others will disagree with me, but I just felt that the most obvious response to the still-on-first-page dupe was the time-honored repost tactic. I don't take
Tech coverage? Gimme a break? You'd get better tech coverage from a bimonthly newsletter. Mostly, IMO,
That said, I find your foeing of me highly amusing. A snap judgement of my post, perhaps, but I hold no animosity towards you. We could start a flame war if you'd like, but I don't find those very entertaining.
So does this mean that if I load Mandrake Linux in the near future it won't flash the bios of my lucky goldstar cd-rom?