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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, 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
.
+[Mandriva] has
a reputation
of being good for beginners, although it is a full featured distro.
[Mandriva] aims to provide the latest applications and
features. By comparison, some other distros (like [Debian
] stable) take a more conservative approach, sticking with slightly older, more proven applications to give higher certainty of stability
.
-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 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.
+
+
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.
-[Mandriva] has a reputation of being good for beginners, although it has lately lost mindshare to [Ubuntu].
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