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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 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 with 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 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. ----- Part of CategoryDistribution.
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