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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.
+
+[Mandriva Club| http://www.mandrivaclub.com/] membership is optional, and has various levels (standard, silver, gold, platinum). Club membership gives access to expanded versions of distros, expert forums, club mirrors, etc. For many people, the main reason for club membership is to support ongoing development of the distro.
+
+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.
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+
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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