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Mandriva Linux Is In Your Hands Now

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Jean-Manuel Croset, CEO of Mandriva SA, announced last evening, May 17th, in a blog post, that the company decided to cease the Mandriva Linux operating system and transfer the responsibility to an independent entity.

Mandriva SA asks the open source community to take over the Mandriva Linux operating system within the next months.

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caitlyn ·
Mandriva the company has been a basket case for a long time. The distro lives on in two forks: Mageia and ROSA Linux. It's conceivable that Mandriva itself could continue as a community distro based on this announcement. This result is no surprise but proclaiming "Mandriva is dead" is just plain wrong.

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