Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris Archive

Mandriva, with the recent purchase of Lycoris, a U.S. Linux desktop distributor, is expanding rapidly, but analysts ask whether it's growing fast enough to compete with the major Linux vendors: Red Hat and Novell/SuSE.

With news of the recent Lycoris acquisition by Mandriva, it would seem that the Linux desktop landscape is in for yet another change. Lycoris, considered to be one of the most innovative and easy to use desktops at one time, has recently lost market share due to a botched release and their inability to keep up with the fast changes in Linux technology. If there ever were an acquisition/merger that made good sense to Linux Desktop users, this is it. We were able to catch up with Joseph Cheek, CEO of Lycoris and ask him some questions about Lycoris and the acquisition. Read More at GUILinux!

Mandriva engineer Claudio Matsuoka questions in his journal if the recently touted problems in Debian Sarge upgrade are a result of package dependencies in distribution getting too complex, even for APT. Has the time come for the next generation of package managers, led by Smart?

Linux is making a name for itself as a better and more secure system. Mandriva managed to fuse this with one of the most user friendly distributions ever created.

Mandriva has released the CD and DVD ISO images of Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited Edition for i586 to their download mirrors.

LinuxQuestions.org has just posted an interview with Mandriva founder Gael Duval.

The PPC edition of Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited edition has been released in the form of 3 ISO images.

Shortly after announcing the merger of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva into Mandriva, the newly combined company released a transitional "limited edition" GNU/Linux distribution to bridge the gap between the two parent distributions. Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 may look a little different, but it's the same great Mandrakelinux desktop distribution that you're used to.

Featuring a 2.6.11.6 kernel, Firefox 1.0.2, The Gimp 2.2, GNOME 2.8.3, KDE 3.3, gcc 3.4.3, openoffice.org 1.1.4, Mandriva is striving to be the operating system of choice not only amongst Linux users, but computer users worldwide - both consumer and enterprise.

A test version of Mandriva Linux, Limited Edition 2005 is now available as a full FTP installation tree which can be downloaded on a number of FTP mirrors. This new release includes up to date flagship software such as GNOME 2.8.2, Gimp 2.2, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 and many others: more than 10,000 applications are provided (main + contribs + jpackages), for both x86-32 and x86-64 processors.

Why did Mandrakesoft buy Conectiva, anyway? Duval told LinuxPlanet that the biggest driver was a desire to extend the company's user base into Latin America.

Linuxlookup.com is reporting after spending weeks balancing pros and cons, Mandrakesoft has decided to change its name. The name change will apply worldwide to both the company and its products. Reasoning behind the name change, along with details are available.

The RC2 for x86-32 is available with mostly bugfixes. The RC1 for x86-64 is merged with 10.2 for i586, integrated graphics on i915-based motherboards are now supported. Packages fixes and additions: kdevelop, nut, pinentry, ripole, rosegarden4, xdelta2, ypserv.

"Mandrakesoft, publisher of the Mandrakelinux operating system, today announces adjustments in the 2005 Mandrakelinux release schedule. Several changes will occur: (1) a new release cycle for retail products, (2) a new naming scheme, (3) the integration of Conectiva's technology into Mandrakelinux, and (4) the immediate availability of a transitional product." Read the rest of the press release here