Mandriva SA, the French company that used to control development of the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution, has become something of a joke.
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Mandriva has become a joke
Author: adminMay 19
Mandriva SA Cedes Control To Mandriva Community
Author: adminMay 19
IT World: Just days after the Mandriva community started its own plans for the next release of the French Linux distribution, its commercial sponsor has formally announced that the community will take the lead on all Mandriva Linux development moving forward.
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Author: adminMay 19
Linux User: Linux Mint 13 has jumped straight to a release candidate, hot on the heels of Ubuntu 12.04s release, and with a controversial switch to Yahoo search???
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Red Hat hits 10-year, $1bn Enterprise Linux birthday
Author: adminMay 18
The Register: Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.
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A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?
Author: adminMay 18
Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well? In the wake of Apache OpenOffice's new update , that's been the question du jour down at the Linux …
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