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Mandriva Buys Assets from Lycoris

Posted by timothy on from the churn-churn-churn dept.

ulteus writes "For months after the acquisition of Conectiva, Mandriva moves further with the following announcement: "Mandriva today announced an agreement to purchase several assets from Lycoris, a major North American Linux distribution for home users. As part of this agreement, Lycoris' founder and CEO Joseph Cheek is joining Mandriva to develop a new and advanced Linux desktop product.". This is exciting for all Mandriva and Lycoris users, but I'm wondering: who's next?"

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  1. I see no problems with this by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm looking forward to having to explain why I have a CD labeled "Manlyca" laying around...

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  2. Mandriva? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buying out another Linux distro makes about as much sense as buying out a little girls' lemonade stand.

  3. Mandriva? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now who the hell came up with the name Mandriva?

    It couldn't have been a native English speaker, because, at least to me, it reads "Mandriver" and just SCREAMS HOMOSEXUALITY.

  4. New name speculation... by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mandrivis
    Lydraktiva
    Condraktivis
    Mancortiva

    I know you guys can come up with more!

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  5. Clitoris? by Kevin+Mitnick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh.. sorry.. Lycoris.. Haven't had my dose of pr0n yet this morning. Gotta wait 'till the co-worker goes for coffee.

  6. Who's Next by ronark · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the 'not-going-to-happen-in-this-lifetime dept.'

    "Mandriva announced today that they are purchasing the majority of shares in Microsoft Corporation. What does this signify to the Linux community?"

  7. Re:Consolidation of the commerical Linux vendors. by ifwm · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ooooh, Jeopardy, I'll play.

    What is a fucking moron, with ridiculous, unrealistic ideas about how the world works, and an irrational belief in failed ideology?

    Do I win?

  8. Monopoly? by pjwhite · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think they're going to try to acquire all of them and create a monopoly on silly made-up company names.

  9. Oh, no... by solomonrex · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, you're going to have to limit yourself to one of the other 10,000 distributions available.

  10. Re:Maybe consolidation is good by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe they can steal a page from SuSE, and call it YALinux (Yet Another Linux). Anything's better than Mandriva.

    Of course, if they buy Wombat Linux, they could be called Woman-driva, but that would just scare everyone else off the road.