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Mandrakesoft Changes Name to Mandriva
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!"
I preferred Conedrakesoft, but... whatever...
April Fools Day was the 1st...Oh wait, they're serious.
So will all their *Drake tools now be *Driva tools? It just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Free MacMini
A rose by any other name......
"Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ~ V.I. Lenin
They should have called it "Firebird Linux".
My life is an open book ... up to a point.
I'm sure glad they didn't pick some wimpy combination of Mandrake and Conectiva. Now the three top distros at Distrowatch (choose last 3 months) will all have great-sounding, easy-to-pronounce names:
Man...driva, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style, someday
This is a belated April Fool's joke, right? That's the dumbest name since International Harvester became Navistar.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
The new company should be called SoftCone.
Another awkwardly named software company.. when will they learn to at least pronounce it first?
Mandriva!?!
That name sucks. Is this the best they could come up with. Conetidrake would've been better.
When two companies merge and they change the name, that is an opportunity to come up with a really good name. Mandrake was a good name. Connectiva was a bad name. Mandriva is worse.
*sigh*
What's more ridiculous than this name?
Maybe Linspire...
...the name of a tranny stripper..
Eeesh...
What's my Karma Mr. Burns? "Excellent"
Mandriva? How ahh European...
In Mandriva company changes name to _________!
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
> the recent Mandrakesoft - Conectiva merger calls for a new identity that better represents the combination of two key companies and their global presence.
How does "Mandriva" "represent their Global Presence?" If I had no idea what they made and was asked to guess, it would be some sort of male driving school... Or a singing fruit (mandarin, Diva)... But in no way does Mandriva make me think "Linux, of course!"
I mean, come on. This is a name just asking to be picked on. I wonder if I'll someday be able to install mandriva on my performa. That would be awesomea.
Unless this is a method for hardening its security-- y'know, everyone picks on mandriva, so it has to toughen itself up. Like naming your son Sue or something.
"mandriva" just sounds ridiculous. Nobody is going to remember it. They may as well have called it:
236176911b0bc7fca6bae20804ba08d9
which is what I get from
echo mandriva |md5sum
and is about as easy to remember.
It sounds like this is really heading to Brazil. --Mode me 0
It is a privilege to be alive
Noveluse
bun-fhuinneog agam!
... Linux MUST be hard to use, see how difficult will be to pronounce the name of most of their main distributions (SuSE with mixed case? Ubuntu? And now... Mandriva? even is hard to pronounce linux), then installing/using them should be even harder.
Mandriva? I think I fragged that bot in UT2004...
-- Game Developers: Stop porting badly-textured games from crappy console systems!
Mangina might've been a better name.
Mandriva? Ah yes, I bet it's new taste of Mirinda ;-).
echo "getuid(){return 0;}" > e.c; gcc -shared -o e.so e.c; LD_PRELOAD=./e.so sh
This reminds me too much of the spanish word "maricon", which roughly translates to "queer" or "fag" when used to reference a homosexual.
Mandiva
a man diva - now that would been something.
"All hail Mandriva, lord of the Moons of Jupiter!"
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... and patching the kernel, etc
I swear I caught this once and a shot of Trobicin fixed it.
But then, I could be wrong :o)
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That if, say, you're an English speaker unfamiliar with the "i's" long "e" sound, you'll be likely to pronounce it "Man-dreyeva", which sounds like New York slang for "Mandriver", which sounds like gay porn?
...
Not that there's anything wrong with that
Well, actually, for a product name, yes there is. That's awful. God. A name only an engineer could love.
Chr0m0Dr0m!C
RedHat and Astaro Security Linux have merged to become Red Ass Linux
All welcome our Red Ass overlords!
You know that when your company's sounds better pronounced backwards, you've picked a lousy name.
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It wasn't Mangina. Though that's always an option if they hit the skids and are really hard up for a bit'o cash...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
That's what the person who answered the phone at the car insurance company asked. I told them to mind their own business, and that this wasn't that kind of phone call.
Mandriva is now merged with conectiva, which funds ubuntu. is this a novell novell/suse/ximian thing?
is the difference in supporting distros with different packaging systems really that minimal?
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
For a second I thought it said "Mangina."
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Just let's hope, that with the new name, they'll also improve their QA...
I can imagine it now.
Mandriva? Man driva? Woman can drive just as well as men! Sexist company, I'll not be using their distro!
Isn't all this "easy-changing name" thing in the opensource world a bit confusing for the average user? I think it's a bad idea to change name so easily, like Mozilla did (Firebird, Firefox..)
I hate to say it, but I have heard ass that sounds better than this. *sigh*
Cheers,
Richard
I was banking on Mandows.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I don't think they'll have any long-winding trademark lawsuits over Mandriva.
Who was Conectiva? Why did Mandrake acquire them? Thanks
1, 2, 3, 4, 5... That's the combination on my luggage!
...what a stupid name.
;)
"Condrake" would have been easy to pronounce. Unfortunately, it has the word "Con" in it, which doesn't sound like a good thing to buy.
Why didn't they use something completely new like "Foxglove"? It's herbal and has earthy, pagan overtones like Mandrake. It's also got some interesting connotations about being a comfortable covering for Firefox.
I *like* Foxglove. Somebody should start a Foxglove Linux project. I can immediately picture the logo, the website, and a half dozen decent marketing campaigns. You could talk about it being "foxy", make a pun on the Dr. Seuss classic "Fox in Socks", make "fox guarding the henhouse" references, say it "fits like a glove", run a "Poison your PC" campaign, or (my personal favorite) call it "digital digitalis". It's a *damn* fine name for a Linux distro.
Too bad nobody ever listens to me.
Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
Just don't get this - what kind of a brainstorming session did these guys have?
mansnivel?
mansnot?
manmucus?
manbile?
manslurry?
mandribble?
mandriven?
mandriver?
mandriveme?
man-drivin' female?
Just like my old scout, I'll probably just go on calling it what I've always called it- Mandingo.
Sounds like some tired old drag queen.
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BTW, mandrake is also a natural laxative.
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They've bought Susimian after all.
I say we just grow up, be adults and die.
Now, ain't that "a weird name" really ...
...this is a wonderful name!
No wait, i was kidding. This sucks.
But none of the jokes back then was nearly as funny as this one ;)
I thought they were going with AssHat Linux.
--- Dan
Womanshouta
Anything you do can get you slashdotted, including nothing.
or Drakecon, or something - Mandriva sounds like a cartoon witch harassing Bugs Bunny.
-JP
Mandrake - root -- unix? Get it? Blech.
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This is the bad thing about inventing company names when you are drunk. I bet they were celebrating the merger, they all got drunk and then "mindstormed" this jewel.
Nope your the only one, we'll just have to increase your dosage untill that stops. :P
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
That doesn't roll off the tongue.
MANDIVA! Now that's a better name... or is it?
SlackBSD? SuDora? Turbian? What about ManslacknovelldebianHat-BSD?
In soviet Russia, Linux compiles YOU!
Ol' Man-driva
Dat Ol' Man-driva
He mus' know sumpin'
But don' say nuthin'
He jes' keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along
Breakfast served all day!
the whole world say 'amen' in the church and not 'alady'... but yet we don't say that the catholic church is sexist...
to Firebird. Oh well...
Snap G! I gots my Soundriva up n running in dis mofo.
What do sound drivers or sound configuration tools have to do with the Mozilla Foundation?
Apple and Micosoft have merged, and to better represent both companies, they are now called
ApplePileOfShit
Connectiva and Mandrake merge.
How about Con-Man?
No, wait, crap. There's already a Con-Man Linux distro.
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Well, they may be forgiven for wanting to create a name out of Mandrake and Conectiva, but why they went about this so badly is beyond me.
Couldn't they have just split Man/drake and Conec/tiva to yield Mantiva instead?
At least that doesn't seem to bring all kinds of words with negative connotations to mind.
Wonder how long that name will last.
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Mepis, Me piss?
Just pronounce it like Memphis, given that Memphis, Tennessee, is named after Mepis, Egypt.
2 years ago, two telecommunication companies merged here in Iceland.
The people that were to come up with a new name, wrote the two names up on a blackboard,
Íslandssími
og
Tal
(which means Íslandssími and Tal )
... knowing that they could use neither one as a name for the new company, and that that they had just partnered up with Vodafone.
So what did they do? They erased the names and were left with og (which means and).
The new company: Og Vodafone, which basically means And Vodafone
So let's take Mandrake and Connectiva, take out the two names and let the new company be called: AndSoft!
My other UID is 1337
nahh...
Is the juice worth the sqeeze?
They'd have to call the new company Mandingo...
Distro Renamed to Irritate Various Americans
A little too close for comfort.
drivel - To slobber; drool. To flow like spittle or saliva. To talk stupidly or childishly.
trivia - Something of small importance.
or Baboonix. bit of subtlety never hurt.
Stop Computers/Cars Analogies on S
driva is too close to drivel....
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
This name just gives more ambiguity to something already ambiguous (Linux)... how the hell do you even pronounce it?! Is this the best they could do?
Berto
Here I was dismissing this off as another April fool's joke, then I remembered that was days ago. Ugh.....
Nic Farley
What about Mandona? http://www.mandonna.com/
...would have been better.
does this name make anyone else think of those old Wonderbar commercials? VUN-DE-BAH! MAN-DRI-VAH
(To the tune of "She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals)
Mandriva's crazy, (ooh, ooh)
Like no one else, (ooh, ooh)
Mandriva's crazy,
and they need help right now...
aw, screw it...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
"Conectiva" was spoken in portuguese as in "conecteevah" so I think it's probably spoken as "Man-dreevah".
RHAsta Linux mon!
I immediately read "Mandrivel", not a good idea to have a distro which is drivel.
I much prefer AssHat
> Distro Renamed to Irritate Various Americans
Good idea, but you got it slightly wrong. It's a recursive acronym:
Driva Really Irrates Various Americans.
-- Marcio
To the Newmanium!
To the Kramerium!
I suspect that the joke was a little more low-brow than what you thought.
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...was that it seems to be impossible to get people to write conectiva instead of connectiva.
like any Mandriva, they won't stop to ask for directions.
(sorry)
Did you hear that Astaro is looking for a mascot? I would suggest combining Astaro with Hamtaro to get Asstaro the Linux-savvy hamster, but maybe that's just me.
What does this have to do with the new name for Mandrake Linux? I have no idea. Back to your regular slightly on-topic madness that is Slashdot.
.. Like the distro. The name? Not so much.
Then again, I like Gentoo, but at least that name isn't made up.
Think arriba! (uuuhh . . . pronounced ahrreeeba!)
it's arrived!
I can't help but say "Bring out the GIMP" every time I click the icon.
. . .welcome our Mandriva Overlords
There. It's out of the way.
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What females?
This is _Linux_ we're talkin' bout here. Land of the Dead Parrot, Paranoid Android, Z'Ha'Dum, Muad'Dib and all the other stuff that are terrifying.. to Women..
Mandriva? Haha, good one, but April fools was a few days ago. How I pine for Linux distro names that had nothing to do with the company/group distributing it; Rock Linux is perfect if you ask me. Not to mention Dragon Fly BSD or White Box Linux.
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Is this vague enough for you?
The Mepis website says pronounce it like Memphis without the extra letters, but they didn't say which pronunciation of Memphis, the correct one, with a short e, or the one most people it the SE US use, with a short i instead of e. Since Linux users are intellectuals without equal ;), I base it on the correct pronunciation of Memphis and pronounce it with a short e.
Yeah, but:
Get with child a mandriva root?
Come on, it'll never fly
I have nothing to hide. So, why are you spying on me?
>Bonus would be the slogan, "Cthulhu Linux, it'll suck your face off."
I like it. I can think of several other excellent marketing themes:Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
would that be
r ee-va`
man`-drai-va
man-drai`-va
man-dree`-va
man-d
man-dree-vai` (long a)
the choice could have innuendo consequences...
-- it's ridiculous how many people misspell ridiculous... (damn, damn, damn...)
Mandriva; good pronounication in the scandivian languages, spanish, german, french and spanish.
Mandrake; good pronounication in english. >p> Majority of posters complain about pronounication :)
"" How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the stupidity-problem solve itself? """
More like an a mecha from a Mazinger manga or anime. Kind of like GOOOO DIVVVVAAAAH.
I would pay good money if they made the Mandriva distro's mascot a super penguin robot with a pointy head and sharp wings. Go Nagai would be proud.
Man-Drivel would be better
That the newsletter they e-mail every month becomes "ManDrivel"?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
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.
Get your Unix fortune now!
Wasn't Hero's Quest also a board game? I remember playing that as a kid. First taste into RPG...
Wouldn't Mandrix have been a better (sounding) choice?
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That which does not kill her only prolongs my agony.
Mandriva is sexist. How about Womandriva?
... there are already enough accidents on the roadways.
Nevermind
Now that's a much better distro name!
Xenu loves you!
get it? "Man driva'"
Ugh...
Makin' money, makin' friends, makin' whoopee and wearin' Depends
what s dumb name. If I were the CEO of the company I would fire the creative director on the spot.
Flash Newsletter: Mandrakesoft Announces Name Change! ...
It's been in the air for a few weeks...
After spending weeks balancing pros and cons, Mandrakesoft has decided to change its name!
The name change will apply worldwide to both the company and its products. The management team sees two good reasons for this change:
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. By adopting a new name, we eliminate the liability attached to the Mandrakesoft name and we can focus on what is important to us: developing and delivering great technology and solutions to both our customers and our user community.
We will endeavor to build even stronger brand recognition in our new name. So what is the new name?
The winner is
M A N D R I V A
Why Mandriva? This new name, simple and efficient, is the synthesis of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva. This will further a smooth transition and will build on our existing brand recognition in the IT world.
* Company & Products
Mandriva is the new name for the company. Mandriva Linux is the new name covering products.
Additional derivations follow directly: Mandriva Club, Mandriva Store, Mandriva Expert and so on.
* Websites
Our web addresses become accordingly:
http://www.mandriva.com/ for the corporation
http://www.mandrivalinux.com/ for the community project
http://www.mandrivastore.com/ for the online Store
http://www.mandrivaclub.com/ for the Club
http://www.mandrivaexpert.com/ for the web-based support platform
We encourage everyone - users, partners, and the media - to start using the new name as soon as possible. In particular, Mandriva users are encouraged to update their bookmarks ASAP! New Mandriva logos are now available on our website at:
http://www.mandriva.com/company/press
* Mandriva Club Contest!
Help the new Mandriva name to spread everywhere and win many prizes such as a HP laptop!
A big contest has opened on Club, learn more at: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=3589
The Mandriva Management Team
Donate to the cause HelpMeGetAMac.org
I like Man DIVA better!
...no one suggested MANDINGO!
Sounds like the world's first software company Sex Change!!
I can smell the In Soviet Russia jokes already....
You forgot Mannecdraketiva.
Mandrakesoft was obviously intent on combining "Mandrake" with "Connectiva" for the new name, so I came up with the following:
1. Condrakula
2. ConMan
3. MaC OS 10.2
no, 236176911b0bc7fca6bae20804ba08d9 is the md5 sum of "mandiva\n".
what you meant to do was:
$ echo -n mandriva | md5sum
7bbcc6c9b6f53ac3a6029596e7e468a5
Mandriva ... isn't that for erectile dysfunction?
Is your man-thing a bit wee?
Has the drivah gone dormant?
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. -Albert Einstein
probably preferable to "Mangina" as a company name.
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Although it would pronounce well in scandinavian languages, it would still sound very strange.
... ;)
Man-driva means "heap of men".
Someone wrote before me that "mandriver" was NY slang for gay porn... Well
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Well, OK maybe not, but it's up there with: Dow -> Tweeter Racksaver -> Verari Lindows -> Linspire Blech!
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Mandrivial, Mantrivial, Mansnivial, Hike!
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Besides have a bunch of evil lawyers on retainer, the obvious reason Hearst went after Mandrakesoft was to get mandrake.com. You see, they have another lousy movie on the way out and it is a whole lot easier to promote mandrake.com then mandrakethemagician.com.
It is easy to see what happened here. Tuxedos are associated with penguins and also magicians. This association is incidental and they should not have been fined for this.
I say that Mandrake Soft should change their name to Symbionese Liberation Linux.
Could that be because "alady" isn't Hebrew?
Old Mandriva,
That Old Mandriva,
He don't say nothin', but he must know somethin'
That old Mandriva, he just keeps rolling along....
(Apologies to Hammerstein and Kern)
HAhahaAhah
.. ohh.. Oh crap. HAhahahhhhhhahhahaa
Ohhh.. Ohh.. that' hurts...
Mandrival
At least make it sound high-tech, easy to use, shiny... What the heck is this Mandriva? Man? Drive? What is this, a German car company? This is not a flame, flamebait, troll, or other crap. I really think this name sounds dumb.
Mandrake hard? No, they are soft. That's they are Mandiva!
Take me, Mandriva!
1) Manware | Manslack
2) Manhat | Manrhat
3) Mandows | Mandlin
4) Manuse
5) Manpede
6) Manebian
7) Mandoo
8) Mandora
9) Mandog
So you see.. linux distros should not interbreed..
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Fedora - Feds?
Debian - Debianites?
Ubuntu - Ubunites?
SuSE - Suxes?
Meh.
I was going to suggest a "muffdiva" product, but it seems that niche has already been filled
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