Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon | Linux Today

Interview With Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2008

Linux Journal: Congratulations on the new
partnership between Mandriva and Turbolinux. As you said in your
news release, you plan to unify the two distributions, using a
common base system, as well as create a joint development effort,
called Manbo-Labs. We are curious to know more. Both Mandriva and
Turbolinux are already excellent distributions. How will they be
better together?

François Bancilhon: First of all, let
me clarify that we are initially only unifying the core components
of the distribution, roughly 100 RPMs…”


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