Mandriva Linux

This is my Humble Beginning of Linux 

I just ran both KDE and Gnome Version of Mandriva on BOX utility.

Brought me all the nostalgia. 

It looks like Debian Gnome does not support BOX utility through Synaptic Package Manager but the Flatpak does support box. 

In any case Box Utility should run in a container. 

All Flatpak utilities run in a sandbox by default.

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: Independent, Red Hat
Wikipedia: Mandriva Linux
Media: Live CD/DVD, Install DVD
The last version | Released: 2012 Alpha 2 | November 6, 2012

Zobacz po polsku: Mandriva Linux

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 integrated its own graphical configuration utilities tool ‘Mandriva Control Center’.

Mandriva Linux uses ‘urpmi’ package manager, which allows installation of packages by automatically 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. 

In May 2015 Mandriva SA has been closed.

The last stable version of Mandriva Linux 2011 was released in August 2011.

Derivatives:
– Most Mandriva Linux developers went to 

Mandriva fork called Mageia.

ROSA is a fork of Mandriva created by former Mandriva developers too.

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

PCLinuxOS initially derived from Mandrake.

Unity Linux (discontinued) is a Mandriva based distribution.

Conectiva Linux

Conectiva Linux

Web site: conectiva.com.br (not active)
Origin: Brazil
Category: Desktop, Server
Desktop environment: 

AfterStep, 

Blackbox, 

Fluxbox, 

GNOME, 

IceWM, 

KDE, 

Window Maker, Xfce
Architecture: x86
Based on: Independent
Wikipedia (PT): Conectiva
Media: Install, Live CD
The last version | Released: 10 | July 5, 2004

Conectiva Linux – an independent Linux distribution for the Latin American market. 

Conectiva Linux was forked from Red Hat Linux, based on RPM packages and used APT to update and install packages.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995 in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, mostly public employees of Banco do Brasil, together with Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in Linux distributions and free software in Brazil and throughout Latin America.

The “Crystal” icons for KDE, which were designed by Conectiva employee Esveraldo Coelho, and the “apt4rpm” port for the Debian GNU / Linux package management, were developed by Conectiva. Conectiva also developed the Synaptic graphical user interface. 

Conectiva employed a.o. Rik van Riel and the kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti.

Conectiva also developed in the area of ​​the Linux kernel, the high availability of Linux and in the area of ​​drivers. 

Also: 

XFree86,

 network protocols, 

firewall, 

Linux clusters,

 performance analysis and optimization, file and resource management.

On January 24, 2005 it was announced that the company MandrakeSoft had acquired Conectiva for 1.79 million euros. 

 

On April 7, 2005 MandrakeSoft announced the change of the company’s name to Mandriva and its distributions to the name of Mandriva Linux.

The first version of Conectiva Linux 1.0 Parolin was released October 7, 1997.

The last one version 10 released July 5, 2004.

The live ISO’s user is: default/conectiva/root without password.

What should I do with my email when I finally kick the bucket?

Wednesday, October 17, 2012
 

What should I do with my email when I finally kick the bucket?

What should I do with my email when I finally kick the bucket?
I have enormous amount of web writing varying from Bullshit to Buddhism.
 

My Bullshit is visited by many including Americans.
 

It is currently at 70,000 and I think 50,000 of it is my own visits (I have blocked my visits now).
 

I want it to pass 100,000 before I kick the bucket and you may help by visiting it.

The blogspot is called parafox at Google and mind you most of it is GOO like Guha Goda or Goo Goda in Kandy.

My erudite or better but Buddhist, philosophical and political one's are at Asokaplus at Wordpress.
 

Type Asokaplus and Buddhism and you get to those contents, hardly a few visit them (Not even me) by accident.

What it means is Web is mostly junk and do not sit in front of your computer like me for hours on end but go and visit your friends.

Till I get 100,000 visits I have decided not to socialize with anybody except myself.
 

You can get me out of this serious malady by visiting parafox at least once a day not in the morning but before going to bed.

That is the time I open my emails (many in fact) and post blog posts.
I have decided not to do that in the morning since our industrial action is suspended not over yet.

I will finish this bullshit by posing a question which you should help me to solve.
 

It is a radical and political problem.
 

What should I do with my email when I finally kick the bucket?

Your suggestions are put in my blogspot (parafox) not in any order of merits.
 

Ideally one should post a comment here instead of sending me an email.