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[Mandriva | http://www.mandriva.com/] is the name of LinuxDistribution published by a French company called ~MandrivaSoft.
-Originally known as Mandrake, they changed their name after buying Brazilian distribution Conectiva and being sued by
[Mandrake The Magician|http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mandrake/about.htm].
+Originally known as Mandrake, they changed their name after buying Brazilian distribution Conectiva, thus settling a long-standing court case with the owners of the
[Mandrake The Magician|http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/mandrake/about.htm] trademark
.
-Mandrake was originally forked from RedHatLinux,
to use [KDE] as the
default desktop, instead of
[GNOME]. The
paths have diverged substantially however
, and while it
's
[RPM] based, you can't just use
packages for one system on the other.
+Mandrake was originally forked from RedHatLinux to replace its
default [GNOME] DesktopEnvironment with [KDE
]. Since then, their
paths have diverged substantially, and while they
're both
[RPM] based, packages for one system will not work
on the other.
-Mandriva has a reputation of being good for beginners.
+[
Mandriva]
has a reputation of being good for beginners, although it has lately lost mindshare to [Ubuntu]
.
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