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Mandrakesoft Changes Name to Mandriva

Posted by Zonk on from the shiny-new-namespace dept.

joestar writes "Following its recent merger with Conectiva, Mandrakesoft has decided to change its name to 'Mandriva' for two reasons: "1. The recent Mandrakesoft - Conectiva merger calls for a new identity that better represents the combination of two key companies and their global presence. 2. The long-winding trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation has reached a point where we decided it is more reasonable for us to move forward.". Mandrake is dead, long life to Mandriva!"

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  1. Re:Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...gentoo is a penguin, just thought you should know.

  2. Re:Well by kyojin+the+clown · · Score: 2, Informative

    or worse still; 'Mandrill' ahref=http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/content/animals /species/9803.htmlhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/con tent/animals/species/9803.html> urgly.

  3. How's it spoken (probably) by springMute · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Conectiva" was spoken in portuguese as in "conecteevah" so I think it's probably spoken as "Man-dreevah".

  4. Re:Mandriva? by nickos · · Score: 2, Informative

    It should have been "Mandrake is dead, long live Mandriva!" rather than "Mandrake is dead, long life to Mandriva!". It's a reference to the phrase "The king is dead, long live the king"

  5. No doubt! by ImaLamer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really!

    I would have swapped that for The Ladies Man (which wasn't the best). By far the worst is Stuart Smalley, even though I love Al Franken (remember, it's the Al Franken millenium!).

    In reality, Austin Powers is the best disguised SNL spin-off ever. All of the characters that Myers does is from SNL (or tested on SNL) and Dr. Evil is Loren Micheals.

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