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Linux Forums: Mandriva 2007 Review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2006

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Was it because of a bad strategy? Was its release cycle too
long? Was it the controversy over Gaël Duval being fired? Or
was it just the lack of quality in its latest releases? Whatever it
was, it disappointed a lot of people. The once most popular Linux
distribution had now fallen far behind the leading Ubuntu, Fedora,
and SUSE. A lot of its users were moving towards PCLinuxOS.

“Mandriva 2006 started to look obsolete after Fedora Core 5,
Ubuntu 6.06 and SUSE 10.1 had been released…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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