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Mad Penguin: First Look at a Distro Changed: Mandriva LE 2005

[ Thanks to SilentBob4 for this link.
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“If there is indeed a desktop Linux market, Mandrake Linux was
one of the founding fathers, and up until their recent purchase of
Conectiva Linux (and subsequent name change to Mandriva), they’ve
reigned right along side other big-name contenders such as
Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Linspire, and Xandros… and you know what?
They’ve done damn well, even surviving near extinction at one point
when they filed ‘declaration de cessation des paiements’ which is
the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the USA. How does
the future of their desktop look? Stick around. We’re about to find
out…”

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