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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.
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They should have called it "Firebird Linux".
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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.
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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...
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> 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.
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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.
Mangina might've been a better name.
I swear I caught this once and a shot of Trobicin fixed it.
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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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!
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)
...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.
BTW, mandrake is also a natural laxative.
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Now, ain't that "a weird name" really ...
I thought they were going with AssHat Linux.
--- Dan
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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.
Oh, that's nothing. I have a really impressing resume with work experience at four different biotech companies - just that they always were one and the same that kept changing names for some stupid reasons. So it's not just open source.
That doesn't roll off the tongue.
MANDIVA! Now that's a better name... or is it?
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!
Connectiva and Mandrake merge.
How about Con-Man?
No, wait, crap. There's already a Con-Man Linux distro.
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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
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.
"Conectiva" was spoken in portuguese as in "conecteevah" so I think it's probably spoken as "Man-dreevah".
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"
> 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
I suspect that the joke was a little more low-brow than what you thought.
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like any Mandriva, they won't stop to ask for directions.
(sorry)
>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.
Mandriva; good pronounication in the scandivian languages, spanish, german, french and spanish.
Mandrake; good pronounication in english. >p> Majority of posters complain about pronounication :)
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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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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