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Mandriva uses the [KDE] DesktopEnvironment as default, but also has [GNOME] and a selection of WindowManager~s. Mandriva uses [urpmi] for package management.
The UseNet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake has an active support community for Mandriva.
-Originally known as Mandrake, they changed the name in 2005 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. Seems some American lawyers couldn't tell the difference between a
old comic strip, a modern Linux distro and
a plant.
+Originally known as Mandrake, they changed the name in 2005 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. Seems some American lawyers couldn't tell the [
difference | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandrake]
between an
old comic strip, a modern Linux distro,
a plant and some other uses for that name
.
Mandrake was originally forked from RedHatLinux to replace its default [GNOME] DesktopEnvironment with [KDE]. Since then, their paths have diverged substantially, with RedHat focusing on enterprise customers and Mandriva catering for both desktop and for server uses. While they're both [RPM] based, packages for one system will not always work on the other.
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