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Displaying items by tag: Mandriva

After many years of struggling to stay afloat, the French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has gone into liquidation.

Published in Open Source
Thursday, 03 May 2012 16:14

Mandriva gets another lease of life

The French Mandriva GNU/Linux company has been given another lease of life it would appear from the company's blog.

Published in Open Source
Tuesday, 03 April 2012 13:06

Ahoy Mandriva! Are you still out there?

What exactly is happening at Mandriva, the French company that markets a well-known GNU/Linux distribution but seems unable to communicate its position to its users and the public at large?

Published in Open Sauce
Thursday, 02 February 2012 10:33

Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight

The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.

Published in Open Source
Thursday, 19 January 2012 11:03

Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed

The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog

Published in Open Source
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 10:10

Mandriva may be forced to shut down

The French GNU/Linux company, Mandriva, may be forced to shut its doors as soon as January 16, following the refusal of one of its main shareholders to accept a recapitalisation scheme.

Published in Open Source
Thursday, 09 December 2010 11:45

Brazil plans large GNU/Linux deployment

Brazil's Ministry of Education plans to deploy Mandriva GNU/Linux for educational use nationwide, according to information at the official Mandriva blog.

Published in Open Source
Sunday, 19 September 2010 11:01

Mandriva fork Mageia is born

A number of former employees of, and contributors to, the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution have decided to go it on their own and fork the project.

Published in Open Sauce
Friday, 25 June 2010 10:45

Mandriva saved by investors - again

The French company Mandriva, which creates and sells the Mandriva GNU/Linux distribution, has received investments from a number of unnamed investors, allowing the company to take itself off the market.

Published in Open Source
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 13:17

Mandriva put up for sale

The French company Mandriva, which creates and sells the Mandriva Linux distribution, appears to be up for sale, according to information at a website dedicated to news about the distribution.

Published in Open Source
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 06:03

Quick update to Parallels Desktop squashes bugs

A new build of Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac fixes a laundry list of bugs and delivers various improvements.

Published in Development
Monday, 11 May 2009 09:36

AVG releases malware solution for Linux

AVG has released a new anti-malware solution for Linux which combines email and file server protection in a single distribution package.
 

Published in Security
Friday, 19 December 2008 05:23

The real value of Linux

There will never be a "Year of the Linux desktop", but I don't think that is actually all that important. Here's why.

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 03:55

Mandriva falls on bad days - again

The global economic crisis is taking its toll on many technology companies and Mandriva, the Linux company based in France, has now taken a hit.
Published in Open Sauce
Tuesday, 04 November 2008 04:27

Is Ubuntu killing other distributions?

First, it was the Debian people who were jealous of the success of Ubuntu. They, at least, had some reason to be annoyed. Now it appears there are others, from other distributions, who are envious too, and try to guise their envy under a veil of concern for GNU/Linux as a whole.
Published in Open Sauce
Tuesday, 16 September 2008 04:14

Ubuntu faces an EULA problem

Ubuntu lovers are all worked up - and this time it's due to the appearance of an end user licence agreement in the next version of their beloved distribution which is scheduled to be released in October.
Published in Open Sauce
Internet monitoring company, Pingdom, has plotted the popularity of the various Linux distributions by geography on the basis of how often their names are used in Google searches. Rigorous it may not be, but this 'distribution of distributions' is certainly fascinating.

Published in Open Source
Tuesday, 29 January 2008 07:30

Each one, make one – the distro debate

Jonathan Oxer, the president of Linux Australia, is a brave man. Few people other than him would have even tried to bring together those who pledge allegiance to different Linux distributions – and within the framework of a conference at that.

Published in Open Sauce

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