“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…”