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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. Maybe consolidation is good by FlyByPC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps what Linux needs to become competitive with Windows in the desktop-OS market is for several Red-Hat-like companies to come out with competing Linux desktop products. Once the way is paved (keeping it Open Source, of course), I think a critical mass will eventually make Linux or a similar Open Source project a no-brainer choice for the desktop.

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    1. Re:Maybe consolidation is good by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Linux doesn't need consolidation as much as it just needs to address the existing usablility issues. I touched upon this in the Symphony OS story, and I hope to get a new blog entry up on it in the next day or two.

      The long and short of it is:

      1. The packaging system is user-unfriendly.
      2. The locations of programs are user-unfriendly.
      3. The folder layout of Linux systems is user-unfriendly.
      4. The lack of a standard base of installed libraries is application (and thus user) unfriendly.

      If this can at least be solved at the distribution level, then we'll be good to go. But right now a given distribution means different things to different people depending on what packages are installed.

      (P.S. Speaking of my blog, I get a kick out of the fact that the story I submitted on my last entry is still pending. Since Saturday. Guess the editors just think it's cool to look at or something. :-P)

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  3. typo by ulteus · · Score: 5, Informative

    "For months" -> "Four months". Sorry!

  4. Consolidation of the commerical Linux vendors. by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We are seeing the very same consolidation of the commercial Linux vendors that happened back in the late 1980s with commercial UNIX. Indeed, it will be interesting to see where this leads.

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  5. 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.

  6. As a Mandriva user... by seanvaandering · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My recent upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 is riddled with problems, will this aquisition actually change the distro, or do the people who download FREE versions of the distro get screwed? I noticed that some software in RPM format asks you for a disk you never got in the download version, its almost why I switched from Windows in the first place all over again!

    Needless to say running this Distro in 128MB of RAM is not recommended. :)

  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. Who? by sben · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're wondering "Who's next?". I'm wondering "Who?".

  10. 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?"