Developer of Mandriva Linux for PCs shuts down after 17 years

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Developer of Mandriva Linux for PCs shuts down after 17 years

bill

2:51 am on May 27, 2015 (gmt 0)

http://www.businessinsider.com/mandriva-goes-out-of-business-2015-5?op=1 [businessinsider.com]

A Linux company that spent 17 years competing with Windows is officially over

But it seems like the idea of pure Linux PCs that take on Windows is on its death bed, if it ever really lived.

As noted by Linux blog LWN.net on the final demise of Mandriva: "It is a sad end for a company that has been pursuing the desktop Linux dream since 1998."

graeme_p

2:30 pm on Jun 19, 2015 (gmt 0)

It not failure to compete with Windows that killed Mandriva (the Linux desktop market is big enough to support many companies that size) it was:

1) competition from other distros, especially Ubuntu and derivatives,
2) bad management - Mandriva kept changing strategy, kept changing owners.

It is sad, Mandrake was the first Linux distro I used and it was very good for its time, but its been left behind long ago.

For the three people who still want to use Mandriva, a fork of it is being actively developed: [mageia.org...]