Mandriva Linux

 

 

Mandriva Linux

Web site: mandriva.com/en/linux/ (not active)

Origin: France

Category: Desktop

Desktop environment:

GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce

Architecture: x86, x86_64

Based on: Red Hat

Wikipedia: Mandriva Linux

Media: Live CD/DVD, Install DVD

The last version | Released: 2012 Alpha 2 | November 6, 2012

Mandriva Linux (previously:Mandrake Linux) – an independent Linux distribution, originally forked from Red Hat Linux.

The system features the most popular desktop environments, a set of pre-installed application for daily usage and its own graphical configuration utilities tool,integrated with the “Mandriva Control Center”.

Mandriva Linux uses ‘urpmi’ package manager, which allows installation of packages automatically, thereby installing all the needed dependencies,        from various media, including network/Internet, CD/DVD and local disk. Urpmi has a graphical front-end called ‘pmdrake’, which is integrated into the Mandriva Control Center.

The RPM package management system is also available in the system to perform operation on the packages.

Mandriva Linux was started in 1998 under the name of Mandrake Linux. The first release was based on Red Hat Linux 5.1, used the K Desktop Environment 1 and was released in July 1998.

In February 2005, MandrakeSoft merged with Brazil’s company called Conectiva to the new Mandriva S.A.

From May 2015Mandriva SA has been declared closed.

The last stable version of MandrivaLinux 2011 was released in August 2011.

Derivatives

MostMandriva Linux developers went to Mandrivafork calledMageia.

ROSA is a fork of Mandrivacreated in Russia by former Mandriva developers.

Open Mandriva Lx has been built on the top of ROSA as its fork.

PCLinuxOS initially was derived from Mandrake.

Unity Linux (discontinued) is a Mandriva based distribution.

Mandrake Linuxdistribution was certainly one of the fastest Linux success stories. Born from nothing in 1998,MandrakeSoft became an international company with 70 employees and it was within the top 5 major Linux distributions at that time.

Globe Trotter was one of its hardware products which failed to catch the imaginations of the users.

It was a hardware piece embedded with Linux Source. A gadget I wanted to purchase but I never could. Instead, I migrated to Mandrake KDE desktop without any hesitation. My migration to Linux from that point was solid in spite of the company going bust in between my journey to Linux.

Mandriva Linux a fusion of the French distribution Mandrake Linux and the Brazilian distribution Conectiva Linux(another discontinued Linux distribution) developed by Mandriva S.A.