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Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Anssi55 writes "As most of the Mandriva employees working on the Linux distribution were laid off due to the liquidation of Edge-IT (a subsidiary of Mandriva SA) and trust in the company has diminished, the development community (including the core developers) has decided to fork the project. The new Linux distribution, named Mageia, will be managed by a not-for-profit organization that will be set up in the coming days. There are already many people that have decided to follow the fork, but the people behind it are still welcoming any help offered in the various tasks related to establishing the new distribution."

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  1. Re:fuck by Buzzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the fork?

  2. Sure. More the merrier by abhishekupadhya · · Score: 3, Funny

    The world could use one more distro.

  3. Re:Don't do it... join forces to Ubuntu. by Bigbutt · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, I'm still using Mandrake. It's my firewall but still, I haven't had any problems.

    [John]

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  4. Re:And, the names get worse by haruchai · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, that other Mandrake fork, PCLinuxOS is just as a bad a name - why didn't Bill Reynolds call it Texstar Linux? Calling a distro PCLinuxOS is like naming your dog BarkingMammal.

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  5. good by onefriedrice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Phew. I was beginning to think there might not be enough Linux distributions.

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  6. My eyes! by MachDelta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goddamn, I skimmed the headline in my RSS feed and saw "Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mangina."
    I really need to cut back on the caffeine. :\

    1. Re:My eyes! by Joe+Tie. · · Score: 2, Funny

      The only operating system endorsed by old greg.

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  7. Re:And, the names get worse by TheSkepticCanuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sit, BarkingCanineMammal, sit. Good dog.