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Mandriva Up For Sale

Posted by StoneLion on from the sic-transit-gloria-mandrake dept.

The French company that creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution is up for sale. The news about Mandriva SA originally surfaced on a French Mandriva portal, and was confirmed by one of the potential buyers. Mandriva the distribution is a merger of the former MandrakeLinux and Conectiva distros. Mandriva the company is no stranger to hard times, having sought bankruptcy protection in the past.

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  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why pay when you can bittorrent it for free?

    1. Re:Wow by courteaudotbiz · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah asshole. If you'd RTFA you would understand that Man-Drive-A is selling sexual products for men that run Linux.

      I think you didn't read the right article... it was on the OTHER tab of your browser, the one where there was no porn and where you posted this piece of anthology.

    2. Re:Wow by Enderandrew · · Score: 2, Funny

      There is no porn on Slashdot? Man, am I in the wrong place!

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  2. I love and use mandriva by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I tried to put in a bid, but I can't get my printer to work with my maching

    1. Re:I love and use mandriva by hduff · · Score: 2, Funny

      So I tried to put in a bid, but I can't get my printer to work with my maching

      Then uninstall Ubuntu and use something that works.

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      "I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
  3. And In Other News... by hyades1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Womanyellingslowdownasshole is expected to join Mandriva on the auction block later this month. The two systems will run on the same machine, but never happily.

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  4. Another nail in Linux's coffin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is it! This is the beginning of the closed source revolution. Today it's one distro, tomorrow the rest of Linux will collapse.