The French Linux distribution Mandriva has had a few turbulent years lately. At the end of last year a large number of developers left the company to start a new Linux distribution based on Mandriva, which they called Mageia. The development of this Mandriva fork was begun in September last year, ... Continue Reading

Last year, Mandriva had to cut their staff, and a large number of developers left the company to start a new Linux distribution based on Mandriva, which they called Mageia. Mageia is now available as a Beta1 release. The developers points out that this Beta1 is not intended for normal users, ... Continue Reading

Mandriva has just released the second alpha of Mandriva 2011, and so far the Linux distribution contains plenty of new software. Unlike many other Linux distributions, Mandriva still offers OpenOffice and has not yet made the move to LibreOffice. Mandriva has also chosen to use the new Red Hat developed system ... Continue Reading

More than ten developers has left Mandriva Linux the last few weeks. Mandriva as a true distro is dead... It is on the Mandriva mailing lists we can read that more than ten Mandriva developers has announced that they are leaving the Linux distribution. All that is left is an empty shell, ... Continue Reading

The Linux distribution Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring is now available for download. After all the rumours about Mandriva, lately, this is good news for many of us. After a period of rumours and speculation, Mandriva has now released the Linux distribution Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. Among the news in Mandriva Linux 2010 ... Continue Reading