Mandriva for sale

[zole052]

Let's start this week's news section with some bad news: it appears that Mandriva S.A., a Paris-based company that has been developing the popular Mandriva Linux distribution for over a decade, is for sale. That's according to this post at Mandriva Linux Online (in French). The article claims that the company's financial situation has deteriorated dramatically this year and selling the enterprise is the only alternative to closing it down completely. It mentions two potential buyers - a London-based lightapp Ltd and Linagora from France, both of whom have apparently entered into negotiations with Mandriva. There has been no official word from the troubled company, but the article quotes a procès verbal du CA as published on the Boursorama forum (in French) last week. Mandriva has been through numerous ups and downs throughout its short history, but up to this point it has always succeeded in finding a way out of trouble. But even if the company does get sold, there is a strong possibility that the new owners will continue the development of the distribution with the existing team. In the meantime, the Mandriva's development branch (Cooker) keeps moving towards the new stable release, with a large number of updates to Perl-related packages and KDE 4.4.3 over the weekend.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100510#news

[Grof]

Žalosno.....

[Suko]

[vuksamotnjak]

Žao mi je što nemam novaca :S

[zole052]

Ajde tuzno je ali mozda nesto jos dobro izadje od svega toga Vidjeti cemo...

[Gigolo]

Žalosno.....

Nije. To je tako bugovita distra da je vrime da je preuzme neko sposobniji. I Fedoru treba dati nekom boljem.

[zlatkoA]

Nije baš tako bugovita nego je postala prenatrpana i preglomazna.
Ko zna možda novi vlasnik ju bolje optimizira ...
nekad sam bio fan te distre ali sad me uopće ne zanima kava

[Grof]

Žalosno.....

Nije. To je tako bugovita distra da je vrime da je preuzme neko sposobniji. I Fedoru treba dati nekom boljem.

Što je s Fedorom? Osim toga kome bi je dao? Pa od zajednice je same (uz podršku RedHat-a)

[Gigolo]

Žalosno.....

Nije. To je tako bugovita distra da je vrime da je preuzme neko sposobniji. I Fedoru treba dati nekom boljem.

Što je s Fedorom? Osim toga kome bi je dao? Pa od zajednice je same (uz podršku RedHat-a)

Znam da Fedoru rade entuzijasti, al nevolin kad radin da mi svako malo iskače bug report ili aplikacija krahira. To najviše primjećujem u Mandrivi, a nakon nje Fedori. Debian stable je nemoguće da omane bilo šta, al je rad na njemu mukotrpan. Sad sam na PCLOS i ide nekako.

[vuksamotnjak]

Mandriva je bugovita koliko i druge distre.....Jedino što se duuuugo boota :S